A child cares for sibling

Louise Robi carries a baby in the 'nimbwi', the name for a barkcloth baby sling in pre-colonial times. Today this is simply two yards of store-bought cloth. However, every bridegroom-to-be is expected to give his future mother-in-law two yards of cloth symbolizing the nimbwi in which she carried his bride-to-be when she was an infant.

• Summer 1981

• Larcom, Joan

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

• Children

• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• South West Bay (Malakula, Vanuatu)
• Wintua (Malekula, Vanuatu)

• Children
• Clothing and dress

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

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