SAKIA TO LIFT WATER

Passing a sakia used to lift buckets of water from the Nile in order to irrigate the fields. The sakia is different from the Shaduf because rather than being man powered the Sakia is powered by a camel or cow going around in circles. Nov/Dec 1963

Norbert Schiller Collection, Phot. Zacher

Pictured scanned from original 20cm X 25cm silver gelatin print

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