Title:

[An ox-drawn water cart] [An iconographic document]

Date issued/created:

[1940]

Description:

The photo depicts a large farmyard. In the middle there is a wooden water cart drawn by two oxen. Visible in the background are farm buildings and agricultural machines. According to the photo’s owner, it depicts Polish countryside during the German occupation which at that time still functioned without any water supply system, sewage system or electricity. Water from a pond for the cattle was transported to the cowshed with an ox-drawn water cart ; 1940, Koronowo, com. Lipno, district Leszno, voiv. poznańskie ; The photo sent to the contest named “Photography of the Polish village pre-1948” organized in 1983 by the quarterly “Fotografia” (Photography) and the weekly “Nowa Wieś” (New village). Copy of the photo kept at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (former Institute for the History of Material Culture)

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; material culture ; farming ; agriculture ; farm buildings ; transport ; water-cart ; beast of burden ; ox ; agricultural machine ; Koronowo, Lipno commune (Poland)

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

IAiE PAN, no. call 99-1

Source:

IAiE PAN, nr inw. 99-1

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. Access only on terminals at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, may be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms.

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Closed