Baby carrier or cradle-board
- maker:
- Flathead people
Baby carrier or cradle-board, painted wooden board to which is attached a leather cover decorated with beads and velvet, strip of wood nailed to top, possibly for flattening forehead of infant, as practical Flathead tribe of Northwest Plateau, so, Flathead tribe, Northwest Plateau, U.S.A, 1860-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A175894
- Materials:
- wood, leather, velvet, skin, animal and beads, glass
- type:
- baby carriers
- credit:
- Glendining
