Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Janet Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: Word of the day: ?Papoose? Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 11:56:07 +0100 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <87a5gsplpx.fsf@parhasard.net> <0t59dj589ukk3a8tlb4hemi1e8hsqneb5d@4ax.com> <1laadj5da4ku1u9j188jg2n70qpvi7pfak@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net KF3Kbm+H0vc59e8PN9Z3EAHBHdOps2C49K+Syb4fLEbLCyTw/Q Cancel-Lock: sha1:3FVsfJS94Marp/1kMM1pEkl4FnU= sha256:kdxg0OpywCXeqnTJ+iwPksf3ChozWYwswozMQanVbTc= User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Bytes: 1759 In article , tonycooper214@gmail.com says... > I don't have a lot of experience discussing (American) Indian > children, so I - too - have never before been challenged with coming > up with a word to describe an unbound one. > > It would have been my impression that an Indian woman uses/used the > papoose-on-the-back as a means of comfortably transporting the child > when she's on the move. It's never occured to me that keeping the > child bound at all times is/was the objective. Binding or swaddling babies, exists in many other cultures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaddling My (midwife) mother firmly swaddled all her babies( as did her mother, and so did I). Mary did the same to Jesus. Janet