Manual Wood Cranberry Picker, Circa 1910
Description
- Media Type
- Object
- Item Type
- Equipment
- Description
- Wood and cloth cranberry picker. This item appears to be handmade out of wood, leather and cloth. The tines are not perfectly matched and the handle shows evidence of hand carving.
A strip of thick leather holds a small curved piece of metal and a small cloth sack attached underneath acted as the receptacle for the berries as they fell through a hole in the back end of the scoop.
- Notes
- Where most cranberry scoops were made of all wood with a solid back end to hold the berries this one has a hole in the bottom of the scoop so the berries can fall into a sack attached to the bottom. The cloth would also allow excess water to drain away as berries were gathered. Made in 1919.
- Inscriptions
- Accession Number 984.45
- Date of Original
- Circa 1910
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- Artifact Collection
- Collection
- Local History
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 46.28336 Longitude: -83.23318
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- Donor
- Donated by Harvey Eaket
- Contact
- Huron Shores MuseumEmail:thessalonlib@hotmail.com
Agency street/mail address:1 James St. P.O. Box 460
Iron Bridge, ON P0R 1H0
