Description:
standing female with elaborately painted costume of vertical stripes and black circles with white dots inside, arm bands, hose ring, ear rings, facial tattoos, hair combed back and hole in top of head, proper left hand holding the leg of the child on her shoulders, proper right holding a melon-like striped bowl, thin child sitting on her shoulders has proper left arm on mother's head and proper right on her shoulder, child also has striped and dotted pattern on its back

Label Text:
Additional writing on this object can be found at
Paper + People the Cunningham Center Blog.

Tags:
women; children

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