The former was wrapped in an Indian blanket, and carried a papoose on her back. |
With the hood up, and her gleaming black eyes, she looked like a little Iroquois girl walking around in her own papoose. |
The day I was there, an old woman walked in carrying a baby girl wrapped in a blanket, like a papoose, on her back. |
But she's also a female woman, an' owns a papoose of her own. |
Then it had travelled on, and every thing had gone down before it-the chief and the brave, the medicineman, the squaw, the papoose. |
A second factor may be more peripatetic communities, in which the invention of infant-carrying devices, such as the papoose technique of North American Indians, has made it unnecessary for the infant to support itself. |