Flooding a higher paddy field with a dragon's backbone water ladder pump (龍骨水車), Yunnan province
Collection
Identifier
Co-s111
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
