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Show 29-30, was composed of cight plam orticed together and weighted wit stones, as shown in the photographs. T oo toa round, somewhat slanting wooden axle approximately cighteen feet i length. The wheel end of this axle rotated within socket cut in a heav wi hand-hewn beam near the end of which was pegged an iron-shod pestle As the wheel was turned by the force and weight of the water the axe revolved and the cam raised and released the pestle beam, allowing the pestl to fall into the stone mortar beneath it. As the pestle fell into the mortar th worker placed rags under it and the maceration began to take place. Durin the beating process a little water was supplied with the rags and as the dis integration continued the beaten material gradually rose to the top aroun the sides of the mortar. Additional rags were added constantly as the beate ‘material was removed. The clinging, partially-beaten fibre was scraped b hand from the sides of the stone mortar and placed in baskets or clay jar ‘where it was later immersed in water and stored in the open air until th foflcwmg day when the pulp received its first washing For this purpose tw s facing each other; around each o their m-ddl« 0 of the four corers of a large coarsely-woven cloth wer tied. Photograph 1. This formed good-sized bag hanging between th two men, a hammock-like receptacle in which the partially-beaten pul was placcd Holding the bag under the water of the mountain stream th tated the pulp in the bag until considerable dirt was climinated Phomg-mph 32. The fibres were then caught up in the cloth, and squeeze and pressed into a sort of cake by tightening the cloth about the mass, th Then the cakes were broken up and again subjected to the action of th stamping mill; the washing process, as explained, was duplicated, and mor Digital Image © 2006 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |