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A Child Carrier, especially ones resembling those of American Indians, is sometimes refered to as a Papoose

• A papoose (from the Algonquian papoos, meaning "child") is an English loanword whose present meaning is "an American Indian child" (regardless of tribe). The word came originally from the Narragansett.

• Child carriers were used by Native American Indians and went by many names, but in the United States and the United Kingdom, the term papoose is used to a child carrier, many of which are similar to those used by Indians. Some are simple slings and others are similar to a rucksack; unlike rucksacks, papooses can be worn on either the front or the back. Papooses are sometimes considered to be an unsafe way to transport a child, as if the adult trips or falls, the child can be crushed.

• The Papoose was a fuel tanker built in 1921 by the Southwestern Shipping Company in San Pedro, California. It was originally known as the Silvanus and was under Dutch ownership when in 1926 it collided with the tanker Thomas H. Wheeler in the Mississippi River resulting in the death of 26 seamen. The Silvanus was declared a total loss and rebuilt in Beaumont, Texas. It started operating as the Papoose for the Petroleum Navigation Company in Houston, Texas in March 1927. In March 1942, it was attacked by a German U-boat, the U-124 off the coast of Cape Lookout, North Carolina. It drifted for several days and eventually sunk in 200 feet of water off Oregon Inlet, North Carolina.

• Papoose is also the name of an American rapper.

• Papoose is also the name of a small guitar, which has a sound comparable to the mandolin. Its tuning is different from that of a regular guitar - "ADGBEA" compared to a guitar's "EADGBE".

• Papoose is also the Greek word for grandfather, παππούς.

• List of American Indian loan-words into English
• The wreck of the Papoose

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