carrying basket

English edit

carrying basket (plural carrying baskets)

A basket fitted with a strap or straps to allow it to be carried on the back with the carrier's arms free.
- 1935, Margaret Mead, “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”, in Richard Lansdown, editor, Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought, University of Hawaii Press, published 2006, page 315:
  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.
- 2014, Chester U. Strait, chapter 3, in The Chin People, Xlibris, page 262:
  The man's carrying basket is often split at the back from top to bottom and loosely laced together with a twine, enabling the carrier to expand his load if desired.

basket fitted with straps