Carrying basket

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A basket fitted with a strap or straps to allow it to be carried on the back with the carrier's arms free.

    "Very little babies are kept in a carrying-basket, a closely woven, rough-plaited basket, semi circular in profile, which the women wear suspended from their foreheads as the Arapesh women wear their net bags."

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"Very little babies are kept in a carrying-basket, a closely woven, rough-plaited basket, semi circular in profile, which the women wear suspended from their foreheads as the Arapesh women wear their net bags."

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