Tray, winnowing
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- OBJECT TYPE
- MANUAL
- DATE
- 1850–1936
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1969.1131.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- HOME BUILT ?
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOODEN WINNOW/ METAL PATCHES & STRAPS ON WINNOW/ METAL NAILS/ METAL WIRE
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 85.0 cm
- Width
- 145.2 cm
- Height
- 22.8 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Agriculture
- Category
- Crop processing
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
This winnowing tray was collected by ethnographer Marius Barbeau in the summer of 1936. It was bought from Joseph Coté of St. Pierre, L'Île-d'Orléans. Mr. Coté sold an estimated 133 items to Mr. Barbeau for 280.00 dollars. Notes on the object in Barbeau’s inventory states as follows: “Fan (winnowing fan)”. Two fans were collected by Barbeau, a general fan and a millet fan; this is the general fan. Marius Barbeau was a renowned Canadian ethnographer and folklorist in the first half of the 20th century known for his work on Indigenous groups and collections of songs and stories. In 1936 and 1937 Barbeau travelled to Île-d'Orléans and other locales near Quebec City and bought hundreds of agricultural and domestic artifacts for a museum first developed by the Department of Agriculture in 1920. The former Department of Agriculture museum was located on the same site as the current Agriculture and Food Museum on the Experimental Farm property. Source: Listed on page 10 as number 230 under Joseph Cote’s name as “Fan (winnowing fan)” in the document “Artefacts_Min Agriculture Ottawa 1936” from the Canadian Museum of History’s archival fond entitled the Marius Barbeau fonds. Entreprise link: http://opentext/OTCS/llisapi.dll/link/6642150 This research was performed by volunteer Denise Steeves in November-December 2019. - Function
-
Winnowing trays are a human-powered technology that separates grain from the chaff. A worker would use this tool by scooping up grain and tossing it into the air. - Technical
-
Winnowing trays are an old technology that predate mechanical separation by threshers. Two fans were collected by Barbeau, a general fan and a millet fan; this is the general-usage fan, distinguishable from the millet tray by the embedded sieve. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- HANDWRITTEN IN BLACK MARKER ON WINNOW TRAY IS: 'X-433 4.2'
- Missing
- None apparent.
- Finish
- WOOD IS UNFINISHED BUT HAS A GLOSS OR PATINA FROM USE/ WINNOW IS MEDIUM BROWN WITH WATER STAINS/ METAL PATCHES & STRAPS ARE BLACK/ BENT OVER NAILS VISIBLE ON TRAY & HANDLES
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Tray, winnowing, between 1850–1936, Artifact no. 1969.1131, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1969.1131.001/
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