Husking rice with stone wheels (chaser mills), by a farmhouse, Zhejiang Province

Husking rice with stone wheels (chaser mills), by a farmhouse, Zhejiang Province

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Bo01-016. Photograph in cameo format. These husking machines are described by Rudolf P. Hommel in ‘China at Work’, as chaser mills. The mills were also used to grind beans, bones, etc. See JC-s230.

Caption in album or on mount

‘Husking rice’.

Estimated Date

1870

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph