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Titolo dell'opera:
bucket
Acquisizione:
sec. XIX fine
Epoca:
Inventario:
3475
Utilizzo:
sgottare l'acqua dai bacini chiusi fissato per mezzo della catena ad una gru a bilanciere girevole detta 'cicogna' quando il bacino è stato delimitato da palificate
Descrizione:
DESO: iron bucket with pivoted reinforcement and chain DESI: subject absent DESS: subject absent Before the invention of dredgers - vessels used to excavate the seabed of a harbor - operations were carried out manually.
Having delimited the area concerned by means of a wooden piling, “cicogne” were mounted on the edge of it: sort of wooden cranes equipped on one side with a chain holding an iron bucket; on the other by a counterweight. With the cicogne, the basin was emptied of water, after which workers would remove the bottom from the mud by the use of baskets carried on their shoulders. Women were also engaged in this kind of labor, which was very tiring.
