Sheep Salving
- Original object type: Artefact
- Title: Sheep Salving
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Description:
Mr. M. Horner of Buckden preparing to salve sheep in a field at Cray ( Langstrothdale). A wooden salving bowl, with flat handle, has been lodged in a dry stone wall. Mr. Horner takes a seat on the salving stool. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0772. With ms. note, and ms. sketch of a salving stool based on a diagram in Joseph Lucas' 'Studies in Nidderdale' (London; Pateley Bridge: E. Stock, [1882]). Card 1 in a series of 3.
Before the introduction of chemical sheep dip, sheep were salved with a mixture of tar and grease, the wool being parted and the salve rubbed into the roots.
Originally held in Photo File: Sheep Dipping/Salving.
- Date range: July 1965
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: University Subjects > Linguistics and Phonetics
- Collection: Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
- Physical Identifier: LAVC/PHO/P0773
- URI: http://digital.library.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/27247
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