1936 Chinese American Baby Carrier
date: label: date made
content: 1936
name: label: maker
content: Lee Ng Shee
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: referenced
content: Immigration
label: referenced
content: Immigrants
label: used
content: Chinese Americans
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Chinese American
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Mead, Virginia Lee. Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
label: Related Web Publication
content: https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0555
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0620.03
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0620.03
label: accession number
content: 1992.0620
objectType: label: Object Name
content: baby carrier
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 60 cm x 304 cm; 23 5/8 in x 119 11/16 in