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   From: nobody@home.com   
      
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   tonycooper214@gmail.com says...   
   > I don't have a lot of experience discussing (American) Indian   
   > children, so I - too - have never before been challenged with coming   
   > up with a word to describe an unbound one.   
   >   
   > It would have been my impression that an Indian woman uses/used the   
   > papoose-on-the-back as a means of comfortably transporting the child   
   > when she's on the move.  It's never occured to me that keeping the   
   > child bound at all times is/was the objective.   
      
     Binding or swaddling babies, exists in many other   
   cultures.   
      
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaddling   
      
      My (midwife) mother firmly swaddled all her babies( as   
   did her mother, and so did I).  Mary did the same to   
   Jesus.   
      
       Janet   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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