Komse

As Komse refers to a support device (support cradle) of the seeds is used. Very similar carrying cradles, for example, when the indigenous peoples of America as cradleboard (German: cradle board ), respectively.

Sami mother with baby in the Komse, 1917

See also

• Cradle
• Swaddle (child)

literature

• Hermann Heinrich Ploss (1911). The child in habit and custom of nations. Ethnographic studies. Volume 1. 3rd edition Leipzig.
• Friedrich von Zglinicki (1979). The cradle. Folklore - cultural history - art history - medical history. A cradle typology with over 500 illustrations. Regensburg 1979 ISBN 3-7917-0622-5

Web links

Commons : Gietkka  - collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Ploß (1911), p. 277 and Fig. P. 278. Zglinicki (1979), Fig. 151 shows a hanging cradle of seeds, which is very similar to a cradleboard.