Baby Love: An Affectionate Miscellany

Moses basket

The most traditional form of carrying device for a baby is a basket, made famous by Moses in the biblical bull rushes.

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Seri babies of New Mexico are carried in a shallow basket filled with sand and lined with a cloth.

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The ancient Anasazi people of the Four Corners — the point where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet — carried their babies in baskets made of oval willow rings, tied together with strips of juniper and bound with soft deerskin.

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In Siberia, the Mansi baby is carried in a tiny birch bark carrying cradle, and kept warm under a soft swan-skin coverlet. Birch bark was used for centuries in basket-making throughout the northern hemisphere.

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A Chinese mother working in the rice fields carries her baby in a deep wicker basket, held on by shoulder straps.

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Baby Love:
An Affectionate Miscellany

By: Rachael Hale
Published by: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Packaged by: PQ Blackwell Ltd.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7407-7612-0
ISBN-10: 0-7407-7612-6
Format: Hardcover: 8 3/4 x 10 1/4, 160 pages, 5 foldout pages
Price: $24.99 ($27.50 Canada)

All images copyright © Rachel Hale Trust