Potter's Wheel (With Axle)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Jan 1986
name: label: Collector
content: Festival Of American Folklife
label: Donor Name
content: Office Of Folklife Programs
notes: label: Notes
content: LARGE DOUBLE WHEEL MADE WITH TWO HEAVY WOODEN DISKS JOINED TOGETHER WITH 4 THICK WOODEN CROSSBARS OR BLOCKS. UPPER DISK IS SMOOTH, PROVIDING THE WORK SURFACE FOR THE CLAY. LOWER DISK HAS CENTRAL HOLE FOR INSERTION OF AXLE, REINFORCED WITH METAL HELD DOWN WITH BENT NAILS. AXLE GOES THROUGH LOWER DISK AND INSERTS INTO UNDERSIDE OF UPPER DISK; THIS HOLE REINFORCED WITH TWO SQUARE PIECESOF WOOD. AXLE: ALUMINUM PAINT CAN FILLED WITH CEMENT, THECEMENT HOLDING IN PLACE AN IRON PIPE WITH SOCKETED TIP. GIVEN BY SHIM SANG-OON, KOREAN POTTER PARTICIPATING IN 1982 FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLIFE.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kyonggi (Gyeonggi) Province, Korea, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Korean
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 356614
label: USNM Number
content: E423199-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Potter's Wheel
physicalDescription: label: Width - Wheel
content: 29.5 cm
label: Diameter - Wheel
content: 56 cm
label: Height - Axle
content: 56 cm
label: Diameter - Axle
content: 17 cm