Grape Picking Pan or Lug
notes: label: Description
content: A vineyard worker used this yellow plastic container—called a picking pan or lug—during the grape harvests of 1996 and 1997 at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in California’s Napa Valley. Each of about a dozen men in the harvest crew carried one of these pans into the vineyard, harvesting rows of grapes identified as optimally ripe by the winemakers and vineyard manager.
label: Description
content: Using special knives with curved blades, workers deftly cut the clusters of grapes from the vines and dropped them into the pans. As they worked quickly from vine to vine, they moved the pans along the ground. When a pan was filled, the picker carried it (sometimes running with it perched on his shoulder) to a large open trailer, or gondola, which was pulled by a tractor and parked at the end of the row. The vineyard workers in the 1996 and 1997 harvests were mostly young, Latino men, several of whom had worked at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in previous years. The experienced vineyard workers worked quickly and accurately, keeping MOG (material other than grapes) out of the pans.
topic: label: Subject
content: Wine
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
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content: Food
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content: FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0181.23
label: accession number
content: 1998.0181
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0181.23
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pan, picking, yellow
label: Other Terms
content: pan, picking, yellow; Winemaking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 cm x 60 cm x 40.5 cm; 7 3/32 in x 23 5/8 in x 15 15/16 in