Aborigines used a large piece of cloth to carry children on their backs. When they went to work in the fields or at the loom, this cloth was hung between the branches of a tree like a hammock. The practice of bedding infants among the trees was common among the mountain tribes. Other paintings reveal that the plains aborigines possessed similar cloth carriages which could be hung as beds. They were, however, hung between hammered posts, not trees.
- Item No.
- 85361
- Period
- A.D. 1744-1747
- Dimensions
- Height 40.5, width 29.5 cm
- Materials
- paper
