Coopers
Title
Coopers
Publisher
Pitts Theology Library
Work Attributes
Date
1875 - 1895
Description
Four boys, are shown crafting the braided bamboo hoops which hold barrels together. The boy in the foreground with a hammer is working on a barrel with one completed hoop. Unlike many others in the collection, this photograph seems to have been taken outside. Turner has added the inscription, "Coopers."
Rights
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Subject
Japan; coopering; barrels; bamboo
Worktype
color prints (photographs)
Collection
Citation
“Coopers,” East Asia, accessed November 5, 2025, https://eastasia.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/476.
