Plow

Museum number:

9-11525a-h

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm210911525a@2dh

Alternate number:

CH-6 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.2697

Description:

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.

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

Dimensions:

f— length 88 centimeters, a— length 180 centimeters, b— length 45 centimeters, d— length 22 centimeters, e— length 26 centimeters, h— length 28.5 centimeters, g— length 51 centimeters, and c— length 35 centimeters

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