Baby carrier made of skin and decorated with seeds and tassels.

Item

Title

Baby carrier made of skin and decorated with seeds and tassels.

Creator

Creator Unrecorded

Subject

Carrying Device
Bag

Description

Black cattle skin baby carrier with thick hide side straps. The back of the carrier is decorated with tassels; strings of seeds; blue plastic and onjeva [eggshell] beads; the hoof of a small animal [possibly duiker]. [FHM27/07/2019]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Date

c.1930

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

Animal; Leather; Skin
Tied

Identifier

ETH.ANG3.376
A37/376

Source

Antoinette and Diana Powell-Cotton
1937

Space/Place

Angola
Africa
Cultural Group: Okwanyama

Rights

© The Powell-Cotton Trust