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This is to protect the infant's head in the event of the cradle falling, say, from the back of a running kaiila. - (Blood Brothers of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #240)

These cradles, most of them, are essentially wooden frames on which are fixed leather, open-fronted enclosures, opened and closed by lacings, for the infant. The wooden frame projects both above and below the enclosure for the infant. In particular it contains two sharpened projections at the top, like picket spikes, extending several inches above the point where the baby's head will be located. This is to protect the infant's head in the event of the cradle falling, say, from the back of a running kaiila. Such a cradle will often, in such a case, literally stick upside down in the earth. The child, then, laced in the enclosure, protected and supported by it, is seldom injured. Such cradles, too, vertically, are often hung from a lodge pole or in the branches of a tree. - (Blood Brothers of Gor)