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Butter Churner

1901/1930

Sanskriti Museums

Sanskriti Museums
New Delhi, India

This wooden butter churner combines elements of a conventional churner and the spinning wheel. The rectangular base of the contraption has four small wheels attached to it for mobility. The churning pot is placed at the bottom in such a way that the churner goes inside the pot. The ribbed middle of the rod has a looped churning rope fitted into its groove. The other end of the rope is affixed into the groove as in the box-type spinning wheel like a conveyor belt. As one turns the wheel, the churning rod also turns and churns the butter milk.
This is a modernized version of the earlier butter-churning device in which a simple churning rod having a churner at the lower end was placed inside a pot filled with buttermilk and was turned manually by the women folk. Use of conveyor belt-like device is modern and part-mechanised.

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  • Title: Butter Churner
  • Date Created: 1901/1930
  • Location: Western India
  • Physical Dimensions: H 101 cm x W 28 cm x B 82 cm
  • Rights: Text © Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art/ Jyotindra Jain
  • Medium: Wood, Iron, Glass and Jute Rope
  • Period: Early 20th Century
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