Dunedain snapsack

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Re: Dunedain snapsack

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Hey, everyone, I was watching the old silent vampire movie, Nosferatu, and I was watching the hero packing his bag for a trip.
He's using some sort of snapsack!
Now the movie was made in Germany in 1922 and intends to illustrate events occurring in 1838. The costumes look pretty accurate as far as I can tell. Maybe this is indeed what travelers used in those days.
Having a little trouble embedding the Youtube URL her at the moment, so here is the link:
https://youtu.be/oAX2WBzCh5Y?t=9m19s
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Neat find Kortoso!
it looks to me rather like a market wallet, but of a more boxy construction than the usual "envelope" style that seems to have entered 18th c. reenacting over the last decade. How curious!
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ah ah ah!!!! Breakthrough!

Regarding this:
Taurinor - I just had a bit of an "a-ha" moment related to the shepherd's budget, especially the net-looking thing.
...an an unrelated search for more Celtic bronze age info, I ran across this on Roman Army Talk that I think quite likely has the real answer:
... recently lived for a while in a 3rd world land and there the sales women and man on the markets simply wrap all their stuff into blankets and put around this a netlike thing made of cord, like the small ones you see the roman reenactors carrying their water bags or bottles in ...
https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/showt ... ?tid=10748

This makes a *lot* of sense to me: a bundle of things wrapped in a cloth, then placed in a "game bag" of sorts on the belt.
It's a easy/cheap solution for a culture where material goods can be expensive - whatcha think?
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Re: Dunedain snapsack

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Elleth wrote:ah ah ah!!!! Breakthrough!
... recently lived for a while in a 3rd world land and there the sales women and man on the markets simply wrap all their stuff into blankets and put around this a netlike thing made of cord, like the small ones you see the roman reenactors carrying their water bags or bottles in ...
https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/showt ... ?tid=10748

This makes a *lot* of sense to me: a bundle of things wrapped in a cloth, then placed in a "game bag" of sorts on the belt.
It's a easy/cheap solution for a culture where material goods can be expensive - whatcha think?
To make sure I'm picturing this right, something along the lines of Iodo's stuff-net here?
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Elleth wrote: ... recently lived for a while in a 3rd world land and there the sales women and man on the markets simply wrap all their stuff into blankets and put around this a netlike thing made of cord, like the small ones you see the roman reenactors carrying their water bags or bottles in ...
This is interesting, I stumbled across a similar solution using my "stuff net" that Cimrandir linked above, If I have small things that could get out of the holes I wrap the continence in a scrap of cloth before I put it inside, if I fold the cloth over at both ends and because the net has a lot of friction and can be tied tightly the fabric never comes untied and it's actually a very secure way to carry things
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