Flooding a rice paddy field with a dragon's backbone water ladder pump (龍骨水車)
Collection
Identifier
Ba04-28
Copyright
© 2008 Peter Lockhart Smith
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ba04-28. A two-person, 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). See Ba01-046 (duplicate print).
Caption in album or on mount
Water pump. Irrigation
Related Photographs
Estimated Date
1900-1930
Material
Paper
Media
Black and white photograph
