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Water containers and water carriers

Water containers are very often beautiful craft objects used since ancient times all over the world. Here you can enjoy an interesting selection of objects and several illustrations of water carriers.

Horniman Museum and Gardens

Gourd container used for carrying either water or honey. The container is tapered towards the end, and has a handle of thick rope. Label: a label and note from the Church Missionary Society.

Horniman Museum and Gardens

Water bottle, suspended in brown leather straps. The bottle has a wooden plug which has a carved and decorative surface. The basket is attached to the leather harness.

Horniman Museum and Gardens

Semi-circular water carrier made of half of a 'Coco Di Mare' nut, with a small iron spout at one end and a wooden carved handle attached to the carrier by two iron nails.

Horniman Museum and Gardens

Small plain brown complete kidskin water container.

Horniman Museum and Gardens

Water vessel made of a complete, undecorated coconut, with a folded cone-shaped bark stopper.

Horniman Museum and Gardens

Water container made of leather. The container has two spouts, one larger than the other. In-between the spouts are two small handles and a length of string looped through them both. A wide seam runs down one side of the container, and the base has thick …

Horniman Museum and Gardens

Water Carrier, Kanak people, Grand Terre, New Caledonia, Southern Melanesia. The artistry embodied by this functional water carrier from the Kanak people of New Caledonia lies in the remarkable net enclosing the large bottle gourd within (Lagenaria sicera…

Horniman Museum and Gardens

Basketry water carrier and lid made of plant fibre, with long leather straps that are deocrated with cowrie shells. Labels: two handwritten labels from the Commonwealth Insitiute and Imperial Insitiute.

Horniman Museum and Gardens

Water container made from coiled grass. The container is suspended in leather straps. There is a lid attached, made from a pale coiled grass.

Girona City Council

Women Berber extracting water from a well with a bomb. On the ground in the first term one of the containers used to transport the water is observed The image corresponds to the Spanish occupation during the Rif War.

National Library of France
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography

frame; Cardboard, glued

Royal Museums Greenwich
National Library of France
Wellcome Collection

Wellcome excavations in Sudan (Jebel Moya): water carriers.

Girona City Council

Portrait of a group of Berber women and girls. First, containers used to transport water. The image corresponds to the Spanish occupation during the Rif War.

Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Porteuses d'eau a Venise. Rouargue fréres del. et sc. Imp Drouart. R. du Fouarre. n.

National Library of France
Wellcome Collection
National Library of France
Jewish Historical Museum

diapositiva de vidrio de la colección American Colony Photographers que representa a los portadores de agua, Palestina, alrededor de 1920

Wellcome Collection
Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries