Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Transportation Vehicles (hierarchy name)
5. vehicles (transportation)
6. land vehicles
7. [land vehicles by form]
8. [drags, litters and pedestrian land vehicles]

Narrower term/s

• palanquins
• kagos

Anotations

Scope note:

Conveyances carried by people or animals moving in tandem, consisting generally of a bed or couch, often boxlike in form, enclosed by curtains and suspended between two poles. For conveyances used to transport the sick, wounded, or dead consisting of canvas or similar material stretched on a frame, use "stretchers (conveyances)." For portable, often elaborate, chairs carried between poles, use "sedan chairs."