Rake
notes: label: Description
content: Among the myriad tools used at modern vineyard and winery operations are simple hand tools like this rake with four tines. During the 1997 season of harvest and crush at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in California’s Napa Valley, staff working the crush pad used this rake to guide the grapes out of the open gondola, as it tipped its contents into the crusher/de-stemming machine. The rake was also used at the other end of the de-stemmer to gather the stems into piles that could be returned to the soil in the vineyard. The purple grape stains on the rake’s wooden handle are reminders of harvest time.
topic: label: Subject
content: Wine
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
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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: 1998.0181.21
label: accession number
content: 1998.0181
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0181.21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rake
label: Other Terms
content: rake; Winemaking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 22.1 cm x 126.4 cm x 21.5 cm; 8 11/16 in x 49 3/4 in x 8 15/32 in