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Baby carrier of fine burnished indigo fabric. To one corner have been attached two triangular panels, embroidered in various colours against a russet ground, each decorated with a few sequins and edged onone side with pink and green barid. To each of the other non-attached edges of the triangles a strip of blue fabric has been stitched, ending in a loop. On the two sides of the main square abutting the corner with the traingular additions two strips ahve been applied, one blue and the other white, with a pink loop stitched into the centre of the white part. From one of these hangs a cord.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2007.308
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 750 mm x 660 mm
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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