Watching a paddy field being flooded with a dragon's backbone water ladder pump (龍骨水車)

Watching a paddy field being flooded with a dragon's backbone water ladder pump (龍骨水車)

Collection

Palmer, Attwell

Identifier

Pa02-040

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Pa02-040. A two-person, foot-powered, wooden chain pump being used to flood a field of rice. The pump is raising water from the pond or waterway. Also known as a keel waterwheel, dragon’s backbone, dragon spine, water ladder pump, water lift pump (龍骨水車).

Estimated Date

1920-1930

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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