IDNO

P.52901.RDG

Description

Two Egyptian men operating a shadouf (traditionally irrigation system) consisting of two leather? buckets attached to counterweighted wooden booms supported by wood and adobe supports. The buckets are dipped into the water and then swing round for emptying in field or water trench. The walls of the water pit are protected by palm leaf? matting. [JD 10/10/2006]

Place

N Africa; Egypt; Nile; Luxor

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Gaddis, Attaia & Seif, G., Luxor

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1920 - 1930

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Postcard

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.52889.RDG to P.52908.RDG came from envelope now numbered C235/3/ which was found inside envelope C235/. The latter
came from wooden drawer I.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 16/10/2006]