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.
28 Ítems
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.
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.
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.
Small plain brown complete kidskin water container.
Water vessel made of a complete, undecorated coconut, with a folded cone-shaped bark stopper.
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 …
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…
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.
Water container made from coiled grass. The container is suspended in leather straps. There is a lid attached, made from a pale coiled grass.
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.
Part of the documentary ensemble: Pho20Rol
frame; Cardboard, glued
Part of the documentary ensemble: Pho20Rol
Wellcome excavations in Sudan (Jebel Moya): water carriers.
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.
Lettering: Porteuses d'eau a Venise. Rouargue fréres del. et sc. Imp Drouart. R. du Fouarre. n.
Part of the documentary ensemble: PaPeint18; Wallpaper
Part of the documentary ensemble: PhoVerre1
diapositiva de vidrio de la colección American Colony Photographers que representa a los portadores de agua, Palestina, alrededor de 1920
Lettering: Porteurs d'eau.