Suspended by its four corners from a wooden frame, this cloth is part of a baby’s hammock. It comes from the Kathiawar district of the Indian state of Gujarat, on the country’s far western coast. We have a number of cots in our collection showing different ways in which babies sleep in different cultures.
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