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Infant carriers

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  • Ahmedabad women holding their babies. Process print after Bourne and Shepherd.
  • A baby in a carrier made from canvas sailor's trousers, being carried along the street by its parents in Southend-on-Sea, England. Photograph by Cyril Norwood, 1922.
  • A village woman carrying a musical instrument in one hand, a stick with a small bowl in the other and a baby tied up in a bundle on her head. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A Swedish Lappish (Sámi) woman holding her child and smoking a pipe, and a man on skis carrying game. Etching, ca. 1890.
  • A Chinese woman carrying a baby on her back is feeding her husband who is imprisoned in a circular pillory. Engraving (?), ca. 1860.
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    Above left, a woman with a baby on her back, preparing to smoke a pipe (?); above right, men and women walking in line; below, an ox leading peasants to the Kawaguchi temple. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, with top left design by Kunichika and design below by a pupil of Kyōsai, ca. 1870.

    Kawanabe, Kyōsai, 1831-1889. | Date: [1870?] | Reference: 567359i
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    A Chinese woman carrying a baby on her back is feeding her husband who is imprisoned in a circular pillory. Wood engraving, ca. 1850.

    | Date: 1850 | Reference: 579741i
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    An Indian papoose in a baby carrier. Colour process print, 1903.

    | Date: 1903 | Reference: 569428i
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    Tunisia: a Bedouin woman carrying her child on her back: studio portrait. Photograph, ca. 1890.

    Garrigues, J., 1848-1923. | Date: 1890 | Reference: 580224i
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    An Ojibwa woman suckling a baby. Coloured lithograph, 18--.

    | Date: [1865?] | Reference: 665222i
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