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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.
  • Baksa, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A Dyak woman in a canoe is handing her child to a woman on the river bank; a tattooed man is holding various objects. Lithograph by H.A. Henrici and W.J. Gordon, ca. 1839.
  • Baksa, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • A Chinese woman carrying a baby on her back is feeding her husband who is imprisoned in a circular pillory. Wood engraving, ca. 1850.
  • Lake Windemere, British Colombia: a Native American baby-carrier attached to the back of a pony. Photograph, 1922.
  • Tunisia: a Bedouin woman carrying her child on her back: studio portrait. Photograph, ca. 1890.
  • A woman a carrying a child in a basket on her back, supported by a strap around her head: studio portrait. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • Africa: three women carrying babies on their backs in fabric slings. Photograph by Dudley Kidd, 1910/1930.
  • A Korean (?) woman, carrying a baby on her back.
  • An Indian papoose in a baby carrier. Colour process print, ca. 1903.
  • Lake Windemere, British Colombia: a Native American baby-carrier attached to the back of a pony. Photograph, 1922.
  • Left, a small man (a dwarf?) lifts a horse's tail with a bamboo rod to catch its faeces in a scoop; above right, a man with filarial elephantiasis is helped to carry his enlarged scrotum supported with a sling; below right, a woman carrying a baby on her back points in amazement. Coloured woodcut by K. Hokusai, 1834.
  • A Papuan woman holding her baby in a child carrier attached around her head. Halftone.
  • A baby in a carrier made from canvas sailor's trousers in Southend-on-Sea, England. Photograph by Cyril Norwood, 1922.
  • Two Japanese peasants on a village path, the man carries a scythe and the woman has a baby on her back. Gouache painting.
  • An Indian papoose in a baby carrier. Colour process print, 1903.