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I am reading Soyinka's The Road ... An immense but difficult play. At the beginning, Moreno takes his osuka and leaves. So I ended up here. I agree that "Porter's knot" is exactly right ... Except that "Porter's knot" is obsolete, obscure, and completely unknown to me (I'm a well-educated American). If you say "Porter's knot", I will be looking in dictionaries, almost as bad as if you just said osuka.

Of course the trouble is that there is no such object in modern (or recent) American society, so there is no word for it.

Of the suggestions above, I think "head pad" is the best. "Head rest" is something you put your head on or against.