Wooden Shoulder Yoke, Circa 1910

Description
Media Type
Object
Description
These are hand carved wooden shoulder yokes that are cracked and worn with age.
Notes
This type of equipment would be used by early settler s and farmers to carry milk, water, sap buckets, or most anything that required being moved from one place to another. This type of item dates back to very early times with references to them in early Egyptian paintings.
Inscriptions
Accession Number 978.10
Date of Original
Circa 1900
Subject(s)
Equipment
Housework
Water carriers
Local identifier
Artifact Collection
Collection
Local History
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Iron Bridge
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 46.28336 Longitude: -83.23318
Contact
Huron Shores Museum
Email:thessalonlib@hotmail.com
Agency street/mail address:

1 James St. P.O. Box 460

Iron Bridge, ON P0R 1H0

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