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| Hans in Blueberry Forest. No artist listed. Finland? |
Charles Sprauge-Pearce born 1851 in Boston. Died 1914 in France.
Notable for the stark functionality of the woman's outfit from the sabots to the double apron and the "corn-knife". Sprauge-Pierce even captured the diagonal slice on the butt end of the stems as would be typical of bending-and-cutting.
This is a woman not to be trifled with.
Even today, women in large parts of the world spend many hours a day foraging for fuel to cook food and heat their home.
'corn-knife'...or 'billhook'?
ReplyDeleteeither, no trifling.
And hours and miles hauling water.
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