Wooden Neck Yoke with Bucket Hooks

Consists of a wooden collar that extended past shoulders with short ropes that attached to wooden bucket hooks used to hand water buckets.  Used to carry water from a well or spring. The hooks were made from wood from the crotch of (usually) apple trees which were as tough as iron.

 

Reference:  Reverence for Wood, Eric Slone, page #39.

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Location:	Panel 13
Length:	99 cm
Width:	64 cm
Weight:	1218 g