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“I was brought home in a fully beaded cradleboard,” she said at her home studio in Santa Fe, N.M.

A brightly colored cradleboard with a doll inside.

When the coronavirus shut down all tours one year after Morfin started her business, she pivoted, opening up Nez Perce Traditions, a shop in downtown Lewiston’s Newberry Square that features Native products, including beaded jewelry, deer-hide baby moccasins, warrior art, medicine bags, dresses decorated with cowrie shells, a beaded cradleboard, horse forehead ornaments and more.

The woman bears an empty cradleboard symbolizing the loss of her child, and she is reaching north with one arm, symbolizing the direction of the tribes’ retreat.

Neewo could wiggle out of his cradleboard now, at last, and was learning to walk.