Flooding a higher paddy field with a dragon's backbone water ladder pump (龍骨水車), Yunnan province

Flooding a higher paddy field with a dragon's backbone water ladder pump (龍骨水車), Yunnan province

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Co-s111. A foot-powered, wooden chain pump being used to flood a field of rice. Also known as a keel waterwheel, dragon’s backbone, dragon spine, water ladder pump, water lift pump (龍骨水車).

Caption on photograph

Irrigation – Yunnan; Archimedean screw; E. Harrison. Rubber stamped: ‘The Kingdom Overseas’

Date

May 1943

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph