Young Woman Carrying A Child

Location Description: 

Northern Minnesota

Description: 

Outdoor portrait of a young woman carrying a child in a cradleboard on her back. She wears an elaborately beaded and fringed dress, with beaded leggings and moccasins; the child's cradleboard has a large curved yoke, and a shawl is draped over the cradleboard. They are standing in a wooded area on grassy dirt incline.

Oversize Box B9.

Mother and child standing in the woods, on a dirt incline. Reed photo. 1908. OJIBWA. NORTHERN MINNESOTA.

Printed on label on rev of mat: "MOTHER AND CHILD. No. 51 Ojibwa, Northern Minnesota. Copyrighted 1908. Roland W. Reed"

Location Description: 

Northern Minnesota