Sheep Salving

Description

Mr. M. Horner of Buckden salving sheep in a field at Cray ( Langstrothdale). A wooden salving bowl, with flat handle, has been lodged in a dry stone wall. Mr. Horner sits on a salving stool with the sheep, and parts its wool ready for the salving mixture. 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 green slide cabinet, reference B47.

Metadata

Identifier vck1kzkj
IRN 413657
Class Mark LAVC/PHO/S542
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/vck1kzkj
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Slides
Creator(s) Kissling, Werner
Date July 1965
Size and Medium 1 glass slide.

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