Crossword-Solution: PITCHI 6 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Spencer and Gillan say that every woman has her _pitchi_, or "wooden trough," from one to three feet long, in which she carries everything, even the baby, for she is both pack and passenger beast; when she is hunting, it will very often be used as a scoop-shovel to clear out earth.

Each woman had a good pitchi, a small wooden trough hollowed out of the soft wood of the bean-tree, in which food was kept.

When the tribe went travelling the pitchi was as useful as a suit-case is to a white Australian girl; the lubras packed them with food, and carried them balanced on their heads, or slung to one hip by a plait of human hair, or a fur band; and sometimes a big pitchi was made by a proud father and beautifully carved with a stone knife, and used as a cradle for a fat black baby.

There will, of course, be nothing in the way of chairs or tables, a few skins and a pitchi or two will probably be the only furniture, but a miscellaneous assortment of odds and ends will lie around.