Water Wheel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Oct 1989
label: Collection Date
content: 1960 to 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs. Grace Burkholder
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Grace Burkholder
notes: label: Notes
content: Collector's notes: "The wheels are used on a tripod to raise water from wells. They are also used in gardens, with donkey power, to raise irrigation water from the canals. Like the water-lifting bucket, they are now obsolete. Electric pumps on pickup trucks or tank trucks have replaced them". The accession file includes a photocopied pages of a book (Vidal, F.S. "The Oasis of Al-Hasa". Arabian American Oil Co. 1955, p 143-146) which describes, and has a photograph, of a similar wheel in use.
label: Notes
content: Wooden pulley. Base is solid wood cylinder, with a hole for an axel. Around this are several pieces of wood that fit together in a wheel shape, lashed together and to the base with leather strips. Outer surface of the wheel has a groove to accommodate a belt or rope.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Saudi Arabia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arab
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370093
label: USNM Number
content: E432025-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Water Wheel
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: ca. 16.5 cm
label: Maximum Diameter
content: ca. 33 cm