Title

'An Egyptian sakieh, or ox-driven bucket pump, Egypt', 1905.Artist: Underwood & Underwood

Caption

'An Egyptian sakieh, or ox-driven bucket pump, Egypt', 1905. 'This machine, known as a 'sakieh', is familiar to us, in a less primitive form, as the bucket- or chain-pump. A wheel which you see out yonder next to the river, as it revolves over the water, carries an endless band of palm rope, which hangs in a loop in the waters beneath the wheel. Distributed at intervals along this band are carthern jars, which, at the wheel revolves and the band moves, are carried down into the water, filled and continually raised to the top.' Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1905

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C40_449

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

49,9Mb (3,4Mb) / 13,4in x 14,5in / 4025 x 4335 (300dpi)

Keywords

Africa animal water people male man men country Egypt guy Egyptian ox location century well photograph print donkey mule pumping B&W MONOCHROME oxen black & white black and white B W Ancient Egyptian 1900s 20th century Ancient Egypt water pump The Print Collector stereoscopic stereoscopic photography TGN water amenities Egypt Through the Stereoscope photograph stereoscopic card sakieh James Henry Underwood & Underwood Keystone James Henry Breasted Breasted Keystone James Henry Breasted photograph