head-strap

He rested his pack on a jutting rock, slipped the head-strap, and sat down.

LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010

"These furs will bring a price," he remarked as he adjusted his head-strap and lifted his pack clear of the ground.

LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010

The figure shows the zui, or ornament of the head-strap holding the head-dress in place; also the method of rolling up the gauze flap of the head-dress.

Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

Each carried on her back a wickerwork basket supported by a head-strap which went around her forehead.

VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil 1914

He rested his pack on a jutting rock, slipped the head-strap, and sat down.

Li-Wan, the Fair 1902

Each carried on her back a wickerwork basket supported by a head-strap which went around her forehead.

Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

Round the deer's neck her head-strap [b] was tied; swiftly she sprang to the arms of the oak-tree;

Legends of the Northwest Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878

Round the deer's neck her head-strap [BP] was tied; swiftly she sprang to the arms of the oak-tree;

The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878

I have seen it to be almost universal in some villages of Bhoteeas, where the head-strap alone is used in carrying in both summer and winter crops; as also amongst the salt-traders, or rather those families who carry the salt from the passes to the Nepalese villages, and who very frequently have no shoulder-straps, but invariably head-bands.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

The Lepcha is certainly far more free from this disease than any of the tribes of E. Nepal I have mixed with, and he is both more idle and less addicted to the head-strap as a porter.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864