plow; a) handle, length 1.8 M; b,c) drawbar or beam cut in two; b) length 45 cm; c) length 35 cm; d) wedge to hold in drawbar, length ca. 22 cm; e) colter wedge, length ca. 26 cm; f) colter (iron), length 88 cm; g) landslide, length ca. 51 cm; h) shave, v-shaped iron, length 28.5 cm
Donor:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
Collection place:
Choonsa Village, Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh
Verbatim coll. place:
India, Uttar Pradesh, Choonsa village
Culture or time period:
Indian and Indian cultures
Collector:
Richard Lerner
Collection date:
March 1970
Materials:
Iron (metal) and Wood (plant material) (sheesham)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Accession date:
1970
Context of use:
for two bullocks. used since ca. 1958 for ploughing, leveling, Persian wheel, cane crushing. the colter is a sodbreaker. see field notes for names of parts, etc.