[Infant on cradle board, Navajo reservation, Window Rock, Arizona]

Helen M. Post (1907-1979)

Date

1938
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 9 11/16 x 7 13/16 in.
Sheet: 10 x 8 1/8 in.
Inscriptions

Verso:
u.r. in graphite: Navaho Reservation \ (Red Lake Day School) \ Window Rock, Arizona.
c. in graphite: Navaho babies still are \ transported on cradle boards, the \ mothers have been taught by the govt \ child care program that the limited \ use of the cradle board is the \ best thing under their particular \ semi - nomadic living conditions, but \ the [sic] have learned that their babies \ need to have freedom to exercise \ a grow straight bodies.
Collection Name

Helen M. Post Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Peter Modley
Accession Number

P1985.50.877
Copyright

© Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Location: Off view

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