![]() I hope to one day have time to sit with Joe and learn more about his, and his dads early lives. Doesn't this ring familiar as to how life was in America early in the twentieth century? There was no electricity or plumbing in their home. Horses and oxen were supplying much of the traction power for work and transportation. Note: When Joe left the island of Santa Maria the were only a few cars and trucks being used. Tim also builds traditional Portuguese ox yokes for Joe and others. The steel tires were 'hot' mounted onto the wooden wheels by Wheelwright Lee Sawyer of Jaffrey, N.H.Īll of the iron parts are hand forged and were made by Russell Pope of Elements in Steel Forge, located in Newmarket, N.H. All of the joints are mortised and tenoned. Both power tools and traditional hand tools were used to their best advantage. Tim and Master Woodworker Doug Ham of Rochester, New Hampshire spent a couple hundred hours building this piece. The lumber used to build the cart was logged and milled by the late Les Barden, ox and horse teamster also of Farmington. Joe is but one of many accomplished ox men that came here from mainland Portugal and the Islands. When Joe moved to America in the early 1970's from the Santa Maria Island in the Azores, his father Tiago, was still making his living as a teamster. Joe's father, grandfather, and generations before made their living as ox teamsters doing all sorts of work on farms, in vineyards, on roads, etc. This traditional Portuguese Ox Cart was custom built for our friend and longtime customer Joe Tavares of Hudson Massachusetts. In most every case, we select and saw the wood needed for a project, after we have consulted with the customer. Our primary sawyer is a long time ox man and horseman therefore, he is well suited to get the right piece out of the log. We choose good quality logs and Tim oversees the milling of each log. The small, tight growth rings are beneficial to making a strong ox yoke. Due to the short growing season in northern New England, the Yellow Birches grow at a slow pace. We purchase much of our yoke stock from a family owned log concentration yard in Northern Vermont. The runners are Ash, the bunks and stakes are Red Oak, and the shoes are Rock Maple or Beech. A logging scoot for example is built using three different hardwood species. The New England forests offer us a large selection of softwoods and hardwoods well suited for our many uses. Over the years they have come to know what we look for in respect to species and quality as it pertains to its respective use. We are fortunate to have several family members who are professional loggers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Leather from the Tomb: Why Didn’t It Preserve (or Did It)?ħ.We custom build ox yokes, carts, sleds, scoots, stone boats, and other draft animal equipment. What is Leather and How to Make and Decorate itĥ. The findings are discussed in the wider framework of the development and organisation of the leather industry in New Kingdom Egypt. This approach offers new insights in ancient Egyptian technology as well as in the production and use of specific materials and objects. ![]() Through a study of these artefacts, the reader is guided through the surprising and complex world of leatherworking in ancient Egypt, focussing on the numerous different objects from the tomb that are either made entirely from or include leather, such as the chariots and their accoutrements, weapons, gloves, as well as hitherto unpublished finds, as among which leatherworking tools. This work examines the tomb and its contents through an unusual lens: leather and other animal soft tissue products that were used in creating some of the tomb’s contents. Many objects from the tomb still remain unstudied those that have been published consist of specific groups, for example: thrones, chairs and stool the bows musical instruments game boxes the small gold shrine or the stone vessels. The tomb, however, yielded a wide variety of objects, both sacred and secular, including some that are less elaborately decorated with precious materials but which are, from a scientific point of view, perhaps even more interesting (and enigmatic). The fabulous treasures, such as the gold coffins, funerary mask, jewellery, as well as the six near complete chariots are well known. In addition to the king’s body, the tomb contained well over 5000 objects, which were recovered, conserved and recorded by Carter and his team. One hundred years ago, Howard Carter, working for Lord Carnarvon, made one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all times in the Valley of the Kings (Luxor, Egypt): the nearly intact tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun (ca. ![]()
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