Back carrier
A backpack is a device with which a person can transport goods or agricultural products on their back.
Back carriers were an important means of transport for peddlers , hunchbacks and colporteurs, as well as in agriculture . Professionally, watch wearers and glass wearers were dependent on back carriers. In developed societies today the device is no longer important. There, the rucksack , which is mainly used for leisure purposes, and the school bag used by schoolchildren are common devices for carrying on the back. Special back carriers for carrying babies, for example when hiking in the mountains, are still used today.
Regionally, the terms Kiepe (for a basket carried on the back), Kötze and Reff are used for certain types of back carriers . In Bavarian, a back carrier (including a basket) is called a Kraxe or Humpback Carrier , a Kiepe corresponds to the pumpkin .
Jug with a picture of a peddler or messenger, around 1747
"Reff" from Schmerbach / Thuringia, end of the 19th century.
Woman with reading stick in the Kötze, area of Klingenberg am Main around 1900
The Kiepenkerl with a basket-like stretcher
Today transport with the scabies in the Black Forest around 1900
Japanese wooden stretcher
A Sherpa transporting wood in the mountains
Modern aluminum support frame for the French fire brigade
Military version as a backpack carrying frame
Backpack frame from the back
See also
Web links
- Scubapro Handbook (accessed July 16, 2020)
- Carrying babies and toddlers in towels or other comfort carriers and their positive and negative effects on posture and the skeleton. (accessed on July 16, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Zehetner: Bavarian German. Lexicon of the German language in Old Bavaria , Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag / edition vulpes, Kreuzlingen / Munich / Regensburg, 2005, ISBN 3980702871 , keyword Buckelkraxe , Kraxe und Kürbe