- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Baby carrying sling of bark with painted and incised decoration.
- Geographical reference
- Andaman Islands
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Edward Horace Man
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1886
- Date collected
- ?Prior to 1886
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Bark Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Tied, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 790 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.4.2
Search terms: Children and Childcare, Transport and Travel, Baby-carrier
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