Amon Carter print details

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

Helen M. Post (1907-1979)

Object Details

  • 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

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