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Photograph: Water mill. Russians

Title:

Photograph: Water mill

Ethnic groups:

Russians

Territory:

Arkhangelsk province, district

Date:

1912

Collectors-person:
Kostikov Leonid V.
Photographer:

Kostiko L.V.
Dimensions:

11,5 x 17

Number:

РЭМ 2637-73

Annotation:

Water mills were built on the sides of dammed rivers, and worked in spring, summer, and autumn, when the rivers were free of ice. A water mill was a log structure in whose top part was a running millstone, and in the bottom part, the fixed one secured in a wooden frame. The mechanism was set in motion by a strong head of water. The upper millstone was rotating on the lower one grinding the grain falling between them. Abstract by O.G. Baranova

Albums:
Arctic. The Pomors
Rus:
Фотоотпечаток: Водяная мельница. Русские