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of September or beginning of October. With this tool also discharged the trash from the<br />

cart on the lands in small piles th<strong>at</strong> were called "cargillas". The cleaning of the farm yard<br />

was a very laborious and interesting activity. It coincided with the beginning of autumn<br />

and the going and coming to the lands during those afternoons, which were generally<br />

sunny, was very gr<strong>at</strong>ifying.<br />

First ethnological exposition. 1991<br />

Photo provided by Arcadio Varona<br />

The hoes and the picks were used to move the lands. Also in the exposition one<br />

could also see a saw th<strong>at</strong> belongs to a mechanical scythe, which was one of the first<br />

machines th<strong>at</strong> substituted the mow.<br />

The saddlebags were put on the back of a donkey, generally to carry food. W<strong>at</strong>er<br />

and wine was carried for the long and hard workdays. There were also pretty and good<br />

quality saddlebags th<strong>at</strong> were used to go to the fairs. The cowbell th<strong>at</strong> was put on cows or<br />

mares generally so one could know where they were <strong>at</strong> every moment. There were also<br />

smaller cowbells for the sheep th<strong>at</strong> were called “esquilas” (small belles).<br />

In the exposition one could also seen blankets of pure wool th<strong>at</strong> were typical back<br />

then, pitch forks of two hooks and forks of four hooks to move the cornfields when they<br />

were threshed in order to facilit<strong>at</strong>e grinding it, a collar th<strong>at</strong> was put on the neck of mules<br />

and which hooked on to the ubio. For the cows, the ubio was directly hooked on their<br />

horns.<br />

This was the lesson th<strong>at</strong> the visitors could receive <strong>at</strong> this exposition. One can see<br />

th<strong>at</strong> the Cultural Center of <strong>Santa</strong> Barbara, with these activities, did not just value<br />

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