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Image Not Available for After the "retting' of the flax down in the Columbia river, the wet mass is hung up to dry on wooden frames, and this tangled mass then goes through the "heckaling" [heckling] process. [Page 33 of The Doukhobors II album]
After the "retting' of the flax down in the Columbia river, the wet mass is hung up to dry on wooden frames, and this tangled mass then goes through the "heckaling" [heckling] process. [Page 33 of The Doukhobors II album]
Image Not Available for After the "retting' of the flax down in the Columbia river, the wet mass is hung up to dry on wooden frames, and this tangled mass then goes through the "heckaling" [heckling] process. [Page 33 of The Doukhobors II album]

After the "retting' of the flax down in the Columbia river, the wet mass is hung up to dry on wooden frames, and this tangled mass then goes through the "heckaling" [heckling] process. [Page 33 of The Doukhobors II album]

Creator Edith Sara Watson (American, 1861 - 1943)
Date1918-1920
Mediumalbum page with gelatin silver print
Dimensions35.5 x 30 cm
Credit LineFrances Rooney Collection. Purchase with funds generously donated by Martha LA McCain, 2018
Object number2018/3598.33
LocationNot currently on display

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Image Not Available for Breaking up the flax with the wooden knife. The same old instrument in use in the infancy of flax, thousands of years ago. In Brilliant, B.C [Page 32 of The Doukhobors II album]
Breaking up the flax with the wooden knife. The same old instrument in use in the infancy of flax, thousands of years ago. In Brilliant, B.C [Page 32 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
Image Not Available for As the Doukhobors are vegetarians, they use a great deal of dried fruit. The fruit goes with the big oven in the hay you see -- when baked in a slow fire, goes out in the sun to dry in great trays. [Page 17 of The Doukhobors II album]
As the Doukhobors are vegetarians, they use a great deal of dried fruit. The fruit goes with the big oven in the hay you see -- when baked in a slow fire, goes out in the sun to dry in great trays. [Page 17 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
Image Not Available for Doukhobor women in the community door yard, breaking flax on the home made wooden knives, Brilliant B.C. [Page 76 of The Doukhobors II album]
Doukhobor women in the community door yard, breaking flax on the home made wooden knives, Brilliant B.C. [Page 76 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
Image Not Available for Our first encounters with the Doukhobors on approaching the Doukhobor village of Brilliant, B.C. on the Columbia and Kootenay rivers. [Page 84 of The Doukhobors II album]
Our first encounters with the Doukhobors on approaching the Doukhobor village of Brilliant, B.C. on the Columbia and Kootenay rivers. [Page 84 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
Image Not Available for Breaking up flax [Page 18 of The Doukhobors II album]
Breaking up flax [Page 18 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
Image Not Available for The Doukhobor woman has the art of spinning flax fibre at her finger tips. In Brilliant, B.C, This is Alecks" wife [Page 28 of The Doukhobors II album]
The Doukhobor woman has the art of spinning flax fibre at her finger tips. In Brilliant, B.C, This is Alecks" wife [Page 28 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Image Not Available for [Elderly woman spins flax yarn barefoot in the yard] [Page 24 of The Doukhobors II album]
[Elderly woman spins flax yarn barefoot in the yard] [Page 24 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
Image Not Available for Old Aleck Cherinoff, the caretaker of the church and school, in his home made Russian blouse, made from flax grown and spun in the "Community", at Brilliant, B.C [Page 39 of The Doukhobors II album]
Old Aleck Cherinoff, the caretaker of the church and school, in his home made Russian blouse, made from flax grown and spun in the "Community", at Brilliant, B.C [Page 39 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
Image Not Available for [Working with flax] [Page 13 of The Doukhobors II album]
[Working with flax] [Page 13 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
Image Not Available for Twisting flax, Brilliant, B.C [Page 12 of The Doukhobors II album]
Twisting flax, Brilliant, B.C [Page 12 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
Image Not Available for Harvesting flax, Brilliant, B.C [Page 39 of The Doukhobors II album]
Harvesting flax, Brilliant, B.C [Page 39 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
Image Not Available for Spinning flax in a "Community" courtyard, Brilliant, B.C. [Page 3 of The Doukhobors II album]
Spinning flax in a "Community" courtyard, Brilliant, B.C. [Page 3 of The Doukhobors II album]
Edith Sara Watson
1918-1920
Page
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