Renseignements généraux

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Nº de partie

1

Nombre total de parties

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Description générale

WOODEN HANDLES, TRAY LIP & RIM/ TIN TRAY/ METAL PATCH & NAILS

Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

71,0 cm

Largeur

142,6 cm

Hauteur

9,0 cm

Épaisseur

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Poids

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Diamètre

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Volume

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Lexique

Groupe

Agriculture

Catégorie

Traitement de récolte

Sous-catégorie

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Fabricant

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Pays

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État/province

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Ville

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Contexte

Pays

Canada

État/province

Québec

Période

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Canada

This winnowing tray was collected by ethnographer Marius Barbeau in the summer of 1936. It was bought from Oscar Paquet of L'Île-d'Orléans. Mr. Paquet sold an estimated 39 items to Mr. Barbeau for 150.00 dollars. Marius Barbeau was a renowned Canadian ethnographer and folklorist in the first half of the 20th century known for his work on Indigenous groups and collections of songs and stories. In 1936 and 1937 Barbeau travelled to Ile de Orleans and other locales near Quebec City and bought hundreds of agricultural and domestic artifacts for a museum first developed by the Department of Agriculture in 1920. The former Department of Agriculture museum was located on the same site as the current Agriculture and Food Museum on the Experimental Farm property. Source: Listed on page 11 as number 249 under Oscar Paquet’s name as “Winnowing fan for millet seed” in the document “Artefacts_Min Agriculture Ottawa 1936” from the Canadian Museum of History’s archival fond entitled the Marius Barbeau fonds. Entreprise link: http://opentext/OTCS/llisapi.dll/link/6642150 This research was performed by volunteer Denise Steeves in November-December 2019.

Fonction

Winnowing trays are a human-powered technology that separates grain from the chaff. A worker would use this tool by scooping up grain and tossing it into the air.

Technique

Winnowing trays are an old technology that predate mechanical separation by threshers. Two fans were collected by Barbeau, a general fan and a millet fan; this is the millet fan, distinguishable by the sieve embedded in the fan.

Notes sur la région

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Détails

Marques

HANDWRITTEN IN BLACK MARKER ON WINNOWING TRAY LIP READS: 'X-538 4.3'

Manque

From CA of 07/30/1997 by Sue Warren: No - Complete

Fini

UNFINISHED GREY/BROWN WOOD/ RUSTRY BROWN METAL PIECES

Décoration

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