Women’s work
Two farmers’ wives raking, Hinterrhein, around 1940.Photo: Christian Lorez, Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun
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Women gathering hay, probably Malans, around 1940.Photo: Raetian Museum
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Yaw harvest, Rheinwald, around 1940. Yaw plants (Alpen-Ampfer in German) are considered mere weeds in today’s agriculture. In earlier times they were used as pig-feed.Photo: Christian Lorez, Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun
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Sheep shearing in Vrin, um 1960.Photo: Willy Zeller, Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun
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Farmer’s wife breaking hemp, probably Malans, around 1940. Breaking off the fibres from the stems meant the fibres could then be spun and woven.Photo: Raetian Museum
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Farmer’s wife with child in her kitchen in Poschiavo, around 1960. Suspended from the ceiling are ring-shaped loaves of bread.Photo: Willy Zeller, Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun
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Farmers’ wives learning how to spin, Ilanz, around 1960.Photo: Willy Zeller, Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun
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«Buuchi», the big washing day, Churwalden, 1912. Placing the washing in boiling water was known as «buuchen».Foto: Christian Meisser, Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun
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«Diä
aalt Tachlichuchi» [an old kitchen in the Hinterrhein]
Speaker: Elisabeth Hasler-Stoffel, Text: Ida Stoffel-Schmid, in: Äppes vam Tachli Idi, Walservereinigung
Graubünden, 2012