Object Details
- Lee Ng Shee
- 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
- Credit Line
- Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
- 1936
- ID Number
- 1992.0620.03
- catalog number
- 1992.0620.03
- accession number
- 1992.0620
- Object Name
- baby carrier
- Physical Description
- silk (overall material)
- cotton (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 60 cm x 304 cm; 23 5/8 in x 119 11/16 in
- place made
- United States
- Related Publication
- Mead, Virginia Lee. Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
- Related Web Publication
- http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=set_name:%22Lee+Chinese-American+Family+Papers%2C+ca.+1915-1970%22
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Costume
- Family & Social Life
- Cultures & Communities
- Chinese American
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Chinese Americans
- Immigration
- Immigrants
- Record ID
- nmah_1119914
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-be9d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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