Middle East, Anatolia -- Threshing Wheat with a Threshing Sled
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.703; E01779
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (22 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film: illustrates the basic procedures for threshing and winnowing grain in the traditional non-mechanized farming method of the Anatolian high plateau. Wheat is transported to the threshing floor where oxen and buffalo pull threshing sleds with sharp flints over the grain to thresh it and turn it into chaff. The grain is later winnowed with broad forks in the wind. Finally the grain is cleaned with sieves, packed into sacks and taken to the house.
Legacy Keywords: Turkey ; Middle East, Anatolia ; Middle East