DOI Artikel:
Steensberg, Axel: Observations on tools of husbandry in western Java
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.49001#0092
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AX. STEENSBERG
Fig. 4. A short plough with an iron mouldboard
and share. It can be pulled by one buffalo. From
the mountain area near Bandung.
Ein kurzer Pflug mit Streichbrett und Schar aus
Eisen. Er kann von einem Biiffel gezogen wer-
den. Aus dem Bergland in der Nahe von
Bandung.
course it is slower. The extensive coverage of
the plough makes it most profitable on large
areas owned by big proprietors, but even in
fields of a substantial size angular corners
will be left untilled by the plough, and these
are still hoed by hand.
At present all hoes are furnished with iron
blades, but the square form is reminiscent of
stone blades of Neolithic date in South-East
Asia. Some of them were probably used as
adzes, but others were evidently used as
hoes - and one could presumably use a worn
out adze for hoeing or weeding the field. In
East-Asia from Taiwan and China to In-
donesia some of these quadrangular blades
were “shouldered”, i.e. they had a kind of
tang for hafting, and some had sunken
shoulders in order that they could be pulled
by ropes. Others which had drilled holes in
the upper part of the blade, were presumably
also intended to be pulled by ropes. The
tradition of pulling spade-shaped tools by
ropes was distributed over the continent
from Korea and China to the Middle East
and Arabia. Even in Papua New Guinea
there has been found a blade made of slate
which had sunken shoulders and may have
been used in the same way. Unfortunately it
was not dated (Steensberg 1980, 103-106,
fig. 76).
The traditional Javanese plough, called
woluku in Sundanese and badja in Indonese,
consists of a stilt, a sole with a mouldboard
on the right side and a beam, which can vary
in length, mortised into the stilt (fig. 4,3). In
former times the stilt and sole was made of
one piece of wood like the ard-ploughs of
AX. STEENSBERG
Fig. 4. A short plough with an iron mouldboard
and share. It can be pulled by one buffalo. From
the mountain area near Bandung.
Ein kurzer Pflug mit Streichbrett und Schar aus
Eisen. Er kann von einem Biiffel gezogen wer-
den. Aus dem Bergland in der Nahe von
Bandung.
course it is slower. The extensive coverage of
the plough makes it most profitable on large
areas owned by big proprietors, but even in
fields of a substantial size angular corners
will be left untilled by the plough, and these
are still hoed by hand.
At present all hoes are furnished with iron
blades, but the square form is reminiscent of
stone blades of Neolithic date in South-East
Asia. Some of them were probably used as
adzes, but others were evidently used as
hoes - and one could presumably use a worn
out adze for hoeing or weeding the field. In
East-Asia from Taiwan and China to In-
donesia some of these quadrangular blades
were “shouldered”, i.e. they had a kind of
tang for hafting, and some had sunken
shoulders in order that they could be pulled
by ropes. Others which had drilled holes in
the upper part of the blade, were presumably
also intended to be pulled by ropes. The
tradition of pulling spade-shaped tools by
ropes was distributed over the continent
from Korea and China to the Middle East
and Arabia. Even in Papua New Guinea
there has been found a blade made of slate
which had sunken shoulders and may have
been used in the same way. Unfortunately it
was not dated (Steensberg 1980, 103-106,
fig. 76).
The traditional Javanese plough, called
woluku in Sundanese and badja in Indonese,
consists of a stilt, a sole with a mouldboard
on the right side and a beam, which can vary
in length, mortised into the stilt (fig. 4,3). In
former times the stilt and sole was made of
one piece of wood like the ard-ploughs of