H34F. The baskets themselves carried weights. .24.48.50.62.64.-.68.
Thebaskets or clay vessels themselves carried weights.
Mentawai, yurok, karok, papago, tenetehara, mochica, vakuenai, cachinahua, guarazu, wari, rickbacza.
Malaysia-Indonesia. Mentawai [it was enough to make a hole in the trunk of a sago palm tree, from there sago fell down; each time a hole had to be made just higher on the trunk; one person fell down, decided not to climb anymore, and cutting down a tree; then it became a laborious procedure to get sago; the baskets carried their luggage home from the field themselves; to make it before the rain, the man quickly filled the basket himself and ran home with it; since then baskets should be carried on the back; sugarcane grew tall and did not fall on its own; chickens did not need to be raised; birds with green wings flew in from the forest at the call of people; one person had some illness - tropical granuloma; a bird pecked him into an ulcer, he hit a bird, and green-winged birds became afraid of people]: Kruyt 1929:151-152 and Loeb 1929 in Fischer 1932:224.
California. Yurok [Vohmekumen wants rivers to flow in two directions at once, baskets to carry goods themselves, people eat tar rather than acorns, cook in their armpits; it all turned out to be too difficult carry out; armpits are still hot and with hair]: Kroeber 1976, No. G1:297-298; karok [first, women had to fill the baskets with firewood, they went home themselves; the river was supposed to flow into both parties; Coyote decided that if a man pays a ransom for his wife, let her work; and the man row; this is how he ruined people's lives]: Kroeber, Gifford 1980, No. II13:158-159.
The Great Southwest. Papago [the baskets themselves carried weights]: Densmore 1929:32.
NW Amazon. Vakuenai [The Manioc Man tied a section of the forest with a rope, then the trees fell down at once; one person peeked, the rope burst, now it is difficult to cut down the trees; MCH put it down cassava shoots in baskets, they themselves carried them to plant them on the site; the woman peeked, MCH hung a basket strap on her head, told her to work from now on]: Hill 2009:82-83.
Eastern Amazon. Tenetehara [after sharpening axes and knives, people sent them to the forest; they sent baskets, they brought their crops home; women were not allowed to see it; they looked, the baskets overturned, got up; angry Tupan told women to carry baskets themselves from now on, process cassava]: Wagley, Galvão 1949:132 (note 3).
Central Andes. The north coast of Peru, mochica culture, vessel paintings from the IV-V, 5th-7th centuries AD [depicts baskets and ceramic vessels (jugs, bowls) with legs that themselves wear, overflow, etc. . its content]: Donnan, McClelland 1999: fig. 4.69, 5.67.
Montagna - Jurua. Kashinahua [the baskets themselves carried weights]: d'Ans 1975:143.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Guarazu [baskets had legs and carried loads themselves; but could not overcome obstacles; waited for people to carry them across a log or stream; once stopped at a fallen tree; bird taracoré cut their legs, called them lazy and told them to carry loads themselves; the women found a tree that they had ripped off the bark, making belts to carry loads; if men were the first to find the tree, they would wear weights]: Riester 1977, No. 19:258-259; wari [baskets made by women brought corn cobs themselves from the plots, jumping awkwardly along the path; two women turn around and they laugh at them; since then, the baskets have stopped moving (they have lost jam - soul, animacy); the person who saw an excavator in the city, your ancestors were wise and did not laugh at things ; so they continue to work themselves]: Vilaça 2005:456.
Southern Amazon. Rickbacza [Brazil nuts grew low in a large village, baskets carried the load themselves; an offended man from a small village made the trees tall, cut off the legs of the baskets]: Pereira 1994, No. 38: 201-202.