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A modern pack basket manufactured by Pack Baskets of Maine. A postcard showing a man carrying a pack basket. Women in the Adirondacks carrying pack baskets. A pack basket (or packbasket) is a type of basket with straps designed to be carried as a backpack. Archaeological evidence of Native American pack baskets dates as far back as 900 BCE. [1]
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Customers buying restaurant raffle tickets at a 2008 event in Harrisonburg, Virginia A strip of common two-part raffle tickets. A raffle is a gambling competition in which people obtain numbered tickets, each of which has the chance of winning a prize. At a set time, the winners are drawn at random from a container holding a copy of each number.
A standard gift basket. A gift basket or fruit basket is typically a gift delivered to the recipient at their home or workplace. A variety of gift baskets exist: some contain fruit; while others might contain dry or canned foods such as tea, crackers and jam; or the basket might include a combination of fruit and dried good items.
The pasiking (English term: knapbasket [1]) is the indigenous basket-backpack found among the various ethno-linguistic groups of Northern Luzon in the Philippines. These artifacts, whether handwoven traditionally or their 21st century contemporary variations, are considered exemplars of functional basketry in the Philippines and among Filipinos .
Children playing pass the parcel. Pass the parcel also known as “pass the present” in Canada, is a classic British party game in which a parcel is passed from one person to another.
Matching kinchaku bags. Kinchaku (巾着, lit. ' cloth + wearing / on one's person ') is a traditional Japanese drawstring bag, used like a handbag (similar to the English reticule) for carrying around personal possessions; smaller ones are usually used to carry loose coinage (similar to a sagemono), cosmetics, lucky charms, hand warmers and other small items.
The austroastic carrying baskets is usually woven with bamboo and rattan materials; the base is made of hewn wood (for the baskets of the Ede) or bamboo (for the baskets of the M'nong). The basket is woven in the shape of a round cylinder, with two straps made of very tough braided forest rope, one end is knitted with the body close to the ...