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Four Wooden Mining Buckets
These simple buckets, made from wooden staves and iron rings, and with a small hole drilled in the bottom, (covered with fine gauze) provides the clue to their use, tin mining.
Each bucket held over 100pounds (45Kg) of tin ore and was manhandled by mining coolies over the rough, wet and slippery ground that was a feature of every tin mine. On the left the bucket was probably carried by one man using a sling around his neck, while the ones on the right with rope and loop would have taken a coolie pole.
The buckets measure around 40cm tall and from 42cm to 44cm in diameter.
To see another mining bucket and additional details, click here.
To see a coolie pole and additional details, click here.