What is
Two elements of the era after beating.
- Shovel (or shovel): wooden shovel to throw wheat and straw into the air so that the wind separates them, or to transfer the grain from one pile to another (DCVB).
- Barraca de s'era (Mall.): provisional shelter next to the threshing floor (DCVB).
How is
- Shovel: wide and light wooden blade, long handle. Made of wood so as not to break the grain (measurements, please verify).
- Barraca de s'era: pine branches covered with sacks, or low earthen walls with a straw cuculla (hood) (DCVB, Mall.).
How is fa
- Shovel: fuster or the pagès itself, made of one piece or of boards.
- Barraca: it is set up every summer with what is on the farm and dismantled.
Com s'usa
- After the batre cart , the threshing floor is piled up and the wind is expected.
- It is thrown with the shovel: the heavy grain falls nearby, the light chaff flies far.
- Afterwards, the forca and the porgador clean the rest.
- In the hut the men d'era rest in the shade when they are not fighting, and they sleep there during the season (DCVB).
Vocabulary
- pala de ventar / de traspalar: winnowing shovel.
- ventar: winnow the grain.
- traspalar: move the grain from one pile to another with the shovel.
- boll: cascabillo, the shell of the grain.
- barraca de s'era: era shelter (Mall.).
- cuculla: covered with straw in the shape of a hood.
- homes d'era: those who work threshing.
History
- 1461: "a blat shovel" (DCVB, doc. from Santa Coloma de Queralt; Catalan data).
- 20th century: mechanical winnowers and harvesters replaced the shovel (Majorcan chronology, to be verified).
On veure'n
- Eras preserved in the Pla and the Migjorn.
- Museum of Mallorca, ethnological section (Wall) (specific piece, to be verified).
Why is it design
- The wind as a machine: the blade only gives the height; separates the air.
- Material chosen for the grain: wood, not iron, so as not to split it.
- Seasonal architecture: the hut exists only while the threshing lasts.
For the project
- Visual piece: the window gesture (shovel, grain arch, straw cloud).
- The s'era barracks with cuculla, reference for ephemeral fair pavilions.
Frequently asked questions
What is Winnowing shovel and threshing-floor hut?
Two elements of the era after beating.
What are the traditional words for Winnowing shovel and threshing-floor hut?
Some words: barraca de s'era, boll, cuculla, homes d'era, pala de ventar / de traspalar, traspalar, ventar.
Sources
- dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=pala
- dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=barraca
- dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=ventar
Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.