Object number
53/592
Description
This crook stick was known in Cornwall as a 'rullin hook', and was used for gathering swathes of corn into bundles ready to be bound. This task was often carried out by women.
Physical description
1 crook stick: wood, metal
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten catalogue' form – ‘[description – not always present] Known in Cornwall as Rullin Hook, and was used for gathering swathes of corn into bundles ready to be bound. This was a task for the women, who followed the male reapers. They gathered with the right hand into the elbow of the left and bound the sheave // [ink sketch]'
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_257.tif - High resolution image
