haversack yet again

[onefeather]

i got a question.fatduthmen said a while ago that white me used a haversack for food.well ok.if an indian used it would he just carry food in it?i hear indians didnt eat much between camps or towns.also they didnt eat before a war party so would they have carried other supplies in them? thanks guys :thumbsup: :winking:

 

[Stophel]

I don't really remember that, but generally, the haversack was for food and maybe whatever else you wished to pack in it.

 

[onefeather]

you said it in a post called fench and indian war haversack i think.but i think indaian would have been trained to eat less on the trail.but i think anyone might have put everything in there :grin:

 

[Scott_C]

Basically, the haversack was a military item of use, for the soldier to carry his daily food ration in... There are questions as to how often it was used by cilivians (IE: lack of documentation).

I do know that 'naturalists' and 'botanists' (whether professional or amateur) sometimes noted using them to collect specimens. (I'm sorry, I'm away from my library for a few days; so I cannot supply specifics at the moment.)

Hope that helps,

 

[boar]

Onefeather I can't see a Indian carrying one, he would carry his food in a gut tube. The squaw might carry one made out of rawhide. Dilly

 

[onefeather]

well i said for other things beside food.if he is on a hunt in the winter for pelts to trade he needs some supplies.like a fire starter.extra moces.socks clothes and all his gun accouterments.and rawhide seems very loud. :youcrazy: if you were on a very long hunt would you want to carry all you needed in a shooting bag and bed roll?it could be done but i wouldnt.and military use makes it all the more reason and indian worrior from the french and indian war might have one

 

[mmahlock]

Just a bit of history on haversacks from the horses mouth so to speak.

John Kincaid in his book on his experiences during the Pennisular War against the French wrote the following, "A haversack on service is a sort of dumb waiter. The mess have a good many things in common, but the contents of the haversack are exclusively the property of its owner; and a well regulated one ought never to be without the following furniture, unless when the perishable part is consumed, in consequence of every other means of supply having failed, viz. a couple of biscuits, a sausage, a little tea and sugar, a knife, fork, and spoon, a tin cup, (which answers to the names of tea-cup, soup-plate, wine-glass, and tumbler,) a pair of socks, a piece of soap, a tooth-brush, towel, and comb, and half a dozen cigars."

 

[onefeather]

thanks.that is what i use my haversack for.everything i need food and everything. thanks :grin:

 

[LRB]

One feather, one thing to bear in mind, that is seldom represented today. Those that went on long hunts, to bring back meat or skins, were on horseback, and most often had pack horses, or a pack horse, or expected to ride in and lead the horse back loaded. The use of horses is not often enough discussed, or even mentioned, but they were a very important part of the hunters way of life.

 

[onefeather]

i couldnt agree more.BUT i dont have a horse.if i did that would be one thing.so i carry what i need cause im on foot.mabey while i was hunting my horse ran off or i fell of it and while it was running someone else stole it?not likely but the main thing is most people who do this dont have a spare horse to ride.but i agree they would have had horses.but im just saying that most people now days dont.but when i hunt i just have my shooting bag with what i need and if im small game hunting an empty haversack to put them :grin: also most people who do take horses with them on hunts and treks now days do cause they are usually out west where there is still wilderness here in the east we dont need that :thumbsup: