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Laundry sink The work of cleaning and maintaining the family clothing has traditionally fallen to women. Laundry could be done at home in sinks like this one, or in buckets, bowls or other containers; or also outdoors, in rivers, pools, irrigation channels or wash...

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Pit This well is about 17 meters deep. When there was no running water, the water supply in the houses was made by wells, which sought the water table, like this, or by water tanks, which took advantage of rainwater. There was also the office of aquader, which...

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Bottles of gaseous drinks In the mid-20th century, gaseous drinks became popular and local factories dedicated to these products proliferated: Torrentina or La Senyera are some of them. These soft drinks were sold in returnable bottles. When purchasing them, the empty...

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Saussagges Pyramid trunk shaped horse, formed by four wooden legs joined by the top to a table, onwhich screws a cast iron apparatus containing a funnel-shaped input to introduce the meat and a exit where a funnel is placed so that the minced meat enters the gut,...

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Basin and Slaughtering and legume picking table The basin is an inverted truncated cone-shaped vessel, manufactured in different sizes, although, in general, it was usually large. It was used for culinary purposes (preserves, sausages, bread dough) or hygienic (such...

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Night Tablet and Palm On the bedside table there is a palmatory, a low candelabrum with a wide foot, with a handle, tried from a hole in the middle to fix a wax laundromat that lit up at night and that could easily be moved from one place to the other of the...