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From: Janet <nobody@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Word of the day: ?Papoose?
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 11:56:07 +0100
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In article <qteadjt6e04h35hok2fpurqgo5b8kukutb@4ax.com>, 
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