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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.

A Lapp (Sami) woman holding her baby in a child carrier, her two toddlers beside her. Photograph by Davey & Hackney, ca. 1913.

Africa: a woman carrying her baby on her back, supported by a strap around her head. Photograph, 1930/1960.

Baksa, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

An Araucanian woman in Chile carrying a sleeping child on her back in a wooden carrier, supported by a strap around her head. Photograph, ca. 1913.

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.

A Chinese woman carrying a baby on her back is feeding her husband who is imprisoned in a circular pillory. Wood engraving, ca. 1850.

An Indian papoose in a baby carrier. Colour process print, 1903.

Tunisia: a Bedouin woman carrying her child on her back: studio portrait. Photograph, ca. 1890.

An Ojibwa woman suckling a baby. Coloured lithograph, 18--.

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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.

A Chinese woman carrying a baby on her back is feeding her husband who is imprisoned in a circular pillory. Wood engraving, ca. 1850.

An Indian papoose in a baby carrier. Colour process print, 1903.

Tunisia: a Bedouin woman carrying her child on her back: studio portrait. Photograph, ca. 1890.

An Ojibwa woman suckling a baby. Coloured lithograph, 18--.