Inventory | Ethnography | Setaccio
- Common name
- Sieve
- Dialect name
- sedaz
- Material
- iron, wood
Description
The sieve was used to sift grains in the barn by shaking the heap obtained from threshing. During this operation, grains remained in the sieve while impurities, such as dust and straw, escaped. This process was essential to obtain clean grains ready for storage or further processing.
Use
- Areas of use
- agro-sylvo-pastoral activities
- Specific use
- screening tool
- Craft
- farmer
Preserved specimen
An object consisting of a wooden rim in a circular shape to which iron wires arranged in a halo are attached, supporting a dense array of thin, concentric wires.
Cataloging
- SIRBeC
- 7s020-00121
