Antiques Roadshow

GUEST: This was always just in the basement of our house, and my mom always said, "You can look at it, but don't play with it."

(laughs) APPRAISER: This is a car seat for a baby in the world of horses and camps.

GUEST: So it would have actually been a, a toy...

I mean, for, for a... APPRAISER: Yeah.

Yeah, for a child.

GUEST: For a Native American family... APPRAISER: Correct.

GUEST: ...it would have been, like, their toy.

APPRAISER: This piece that's stuck in here would have been here.

So if the baby falls off a horse, it's protected.

It's swaddled, and inside, you don't want an infant crawling around a camp...

GUEST: Mm.

APPRAISER: ...where there's fire.

Probably post-1880, but not a lot.

GUEST: Oh.

APPRAISER: It is Yakama.

GUEST: Yeah.

APPRAISER: Value, significant.

GUEST: Oh.

APPRAISER: Somewhere between $4,000 and $6,000 on the auction market.

GUEST: Wow, oh, okay.

APPRAISER: It's desirable, and it's the real thing.