Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- In America, Mrs. Lee made this decorated carrier for her granddaughter, Jade. Chinese women carried children on their back in carriers such as this. The child sat in the carrier with their feet around the mother’s waist; the four strips of fabric at each corner knotted at the parents’ front.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Lee Ng Shee
- date made
- 1936
- Credit Line
- Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
- Physical Description
- silk (overall material)
- cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 60 cm x 304 cm; 23 5/8 in x 119 11/16 in
- Object Name
- baby carrier
