Chin Head Basket


Have you ever heard about head basket? Well, we have in Chin Hills. Lets call it Chin head basket. It is a kind of basket that you carry by hanging around your head with a string. You don't carry it by hand. The basket is quite a large one, big enough to carry a 5 gallon water container. And people, even young women and children, carry them by a string hung over their head. It is a tiring thing to do so. I once tried to carry one with some weight in it but couldn't carry more than a few minutes. For the Chin people, they have been carrying a big load since they were young so seem no problem carrying a heavy head basket over their head.

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Anonymous said…
It seem like carrying the weight of the world ha? Wow, that sounds heavy for a small girl in the picture. But true it is that carrying such heavy objects by small and weak girls as daily chores occur in some countries including my Philippines.

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