tumplines, burden traps, hoppis, carrying girdles

The tumplines I make are made from various weight hemp. Hemp makes a strong and long lasting product and with use obtains a nice aged patina, I also do the well liked and documented beaded edge.

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"Girls are rather more accustomed to work by their mothers, for as the women must pound all the corn in a stamping trough, they train their daughters in this and also in such work as will be expected of them, as cooking, bread-making, planting, making of carrying-girdles and bags,the former used to carry provisions and utensils on their backs."
David Zeisberger's history of the Northen American Indians.......

"The men carry everything hung to a carrying-girth fixed across the chest. a deer weighing from a hundred to a hundred and thirty pounds they will carry the entire way home before allowing themselves to rest."
David Zeisberger's history of the Northern American Indians....

"In stature she is very short, and considerably under the middle size,and stands tolerably erect, with her head bent forward, apparently from her having for a long time been accustomed to carrying heavy burdens in a strap placed across her forehead."
The life of Mary Jemison... by James E. Seaver

"When they travel overland, each person carries his own little parcel on his shoulders suspended from his forhead by a belt."
Memoirs on the late war in North America between France and England, Pierre Pouchot