Beginnings of the Carrying Industry
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Otis T. Mason's 1889 essay in American Anthropologist surveys the origins of human burden-carrying as the starting point of transport and commerce, using the railway as a modern analogy. It catalogs the methods of bearing loads on the human body (hand, arm, shoulder, back, head, forehead, pockets) and goes on to combined effort, hauling, tossing, caravans, trails, couriers and professional carriers, drawing on ethnographic examples. Basketry and carrying devices appear in the illustrations (Hupa cradle, Ute seed basket, Micmac hand basket, Aleutian twined wallet, Zuni head pad, Gallinomero burden basket). The scan ends with two short unrelated notes.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1889
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 26
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