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I agree with you tht Nina's baby carrier is very similar to WWT p.320. Just for comparison I would like to focus on the Yi BC in WWT on p. 378 from Wenshang County, Yunnan. I have a similar carrier and I am sending you JPEGs for comparison with the central motif of the Yao BC on p 320 and Nina's central square. The spirit of the embroidery is entirely different in the Yi carrier, much less Han-style. This compaprison reinforces for me the difference between the Yao and Yi carriers."

Nina's style I recognize seeing many in Guangxi, a long time ago and understood them to be Yao.

Ann Goodman's carrier on the blog: when I first saw it I had a sense of the Tujia/Songtao Miao about it, but definitely not Tibetan or any Yi style I have ever seen. I have had very old Tujia carriers many years ago, which I sadly never catalogued, not in this particular style but using the "tabby cloth" and the pale indigo sections.

This is one [labelled by Martin as 'Guangxi Yao Old Red Silk Carrier'] I bought at the time that I think you may have seen before. The front section is very old, the backing is patched up old cotton drill, maybe from an old pair of trousers, and has obviously been added later. Not sure where in Guangxi either.

"These are large carriers, very different from the Guangxi Yao one you posted up yesterday. I have a couple of old Longlin ones pictured below."

The mystery baby carrier, attached, in Ann Goodman's collection has been identified by Herman Mast and his friend Mr. Yu who have provided baby carriers to Judith Stubbs, curator of the exhibition of minority baby carriers at University of Indiana, Bloomington, December 2012 as "from Yunnan; Zhuang minority nationality; [It] displays dragon, phoenix, lion, unicorn butterfly motifs--as well as a number of obscure Buddhist symbols which are virtually impossible to account for out of their tribal context."