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Mingote Calderón, José Luis: Yokes for three cows: a vanished technique for breaking in cattle in La Sierra Norte of Madrid
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J. L. MINGOTE CALDERON
I (Q) (o) E) CO) CO) (o') |
Fig. 16. Yoke from the Coleccion etnografica of Caja Espana (Zamora). Perhaps from Sayago (Zamora).
Length: 215 cm. Drawing from photographs by Luis Angel Sanchez Gomez. □ Joch aus der Eth-
nographischen Sammlung der Caja Espana (Zamora). Vielleicht aus Sayago (Zamora). Lange: 215 cm.
Zeichnung nach Fotos von Luis Angel Sanchez Gomez.
the young bull was yoked with trained oxen
near the house courtyard and young bullocks
were forced to thresh as a first task. The same
author (pers. comm.) confirms that in Campo
Charro the triple yoke was never used on
heifers but on oxen, and always whenever a
young bull had to be broken in. The process
of taming consisted of placing the young bull
between two trained oxen. According to
farmer’s memories the triple yoke was sym-
metrical since the camella for the oxen were
bigger than those for the young bull.
Information collected from Zamora prov-
ince, especially from Sayago, is vague and of-
ten obscure. Most of the information has
been collected by Luis Angel Sanchez Gomez
who has undertaken an important livestock
study in the area. It is commonly agreed that
this type of yoke was mainly used for aricar
(to plough the field when the plant starts to
spring up, see above) when two ploughs are
used at the same time. Its introduction is very
recent and not very important. It has only
been confirmed in Villardiegua de la Ribera
and Villadepera. Arzczzr with two ploughs is
common practice in the area as is the presence
of yokes with three notches, the outer ones of
which were used in performing this task. Its
use for threshing through pulling two thresh-
ing sledges has been pointed out, through the
name of the village is unknown. There is an-
other example belonging to the ethnographic
collection of Caja Espana in Zamora which
seems never to have been in use (Fig. 16).
As has been already stated this type of
yoke is also present in Cantabria. The infor-
mation and illustrations supplied by Gonza-
lez Echegaray23 come from an earlier study
(Garcia-Lomas 1949, 310, pict. XVI, 5) where
Fig. 17. Yoke for the vaca hrava from Cantabria
mountains (Spain) according to Garcia-Lomas. □
Joch fur die vaca brava aus dem Kantabrischen
Gebirge (Spanien), nach Angaben von Garcia-Lo-
mas.
the author does not specify the area of use.
Should it then be assumed that it was spread
throughout the mountainous area of Ganta-
J. L. MINGOTE CALDERON
I (Q) (o) E) CO) CO) (o') |
Fig. 16. Yoke from the Coleccion etnografica of Caja Espana (Zamora). Perhaps from Sayago (Zamora).
Length: 215 cm. Drawing from photographs by Luis Angel Sanchez Gomez. □ Joch aus der Eth-
nographischen Sammlung der Caja Espana (Zamora). Vielleicht aus Sayago (Zamora). Lange: 215 cm.
Zeichnung nach Fotos von Luis Angel Sanchez Gomez.
the young bull was yoked with trained oxen
near the house courtyard and young bullocks
were forced to thresh as a first task. The same
author (pers. comm.) confirms that in Campo
Charro the triple yoke was never used on
heifers but on oxen, and always whenever a
young bull had to be broken in. The process
of taming consisted of placing the young bull
between two trained oxen. According to
farmer’s memories the triple yoke was sym-
metrical since the camella for the oxen were
bigger than those for the young bull.
Information collected from Zamora prov-
ince, especially from Sayago, is vague and of-
ten obscure. Most of the information has
been collected by Luis Angel Sanchez Gomez
who has undertaken an important livestock
study in the area. It is commonly agreed that
this type of yoke was mainly used for aricar
(to plough the field when the plant starts to
spring up, see above) when two ploughs are
used at the same time. Its introduction is very
recent and not very important. It has only
been confirmed in Villardiegua de la Ribera
and Villadepera. Arzczzr with two ploughs is
common practice in the area as is the presence
of yokes with three notches, the outer ones of
which were used in performing this task. Its
use for threshing through pulling two thresh-
ing sledges has been pointed out, through the
name of the village is unknown. There is an-
other example belonging to the ethnographic
collection of Caja Espana in Zamora which
seems never to have been in use (Fig. 16).
As has been already stated this type of
yoke is also present in Cantabria. The infor-
mation and illustrations supplied by Gonza-
lez Echegaray23 come from an earlier study
(Garcia-Lomas 1949, 310, pict. XVI, 5) where
Fig. 17. Yoke for the vaca hrava from Cantabria
mountains (Spain) according to Garcia-Lomas. □
Joch fur die vaca brava aus dem Kantabrischen
Gebirge (Spanien), nach Angaben von Garcia-Lo-
mas.
the author does not specify the area of use.
Should it then be assumed that it was spread
throughout the mountainous area of Ganta-