What is
The two containers that draw water from the well.
- Poal: cube. In the Balearic Islands, the general word for "galleda" (DCVB). The one in the well is lowered with a rope and pulley.
- Cadufo (caduf): each of the buckets tied to the rope or chain of the sinia. They go down empty, come up full and pour the water into the irrigation canal (DCVB).
How is
- Poal: made of wood with iron rings, copper (aram) or, later, zinc and plastic. Iron handle (nansa, ansa).
- Cadufo: clay, metal or wood; wide mouth and a small hole in the bottom (DCVB): when the sinia stops, it empties and weighs less to start (function to be verified with a technical source).
- Rosari: the chain of cadufos in the round of the Sínia ( sinies i molins de sang ).
- Poal (Manacor, Porreres): also the cylindrical glass of the noodle press where the pasta goes (DCVB).
How is fa
- Clay cadufos: work of the gerrers and ollers ( ceramics and gerreria ). The Ceràmica Serra de Santa Maria workshop is also known as Can Cadufa ( file ); relationship of the nickname with the cadufos, to verify.
- A century ago, many sinies and cadufos became iron: the Valencian sinies.
- Wooden poals: cooper or fuster; metal, llauner.
Com s'usa
- Poal: it is lowered into the well, it is raised by hand or with a corriola, it is poured into the pike or into the safareig .
- Cadufos: the animal rotates the synia; The cadufos rise in a rosary and empty into the canal, which goes to the safareig or the furrows.
- Sound: the “gemega” synia and the “degoten” cadufos (Rosselló, Valldemossa, DCVB).
Vocabulary
- poal: cube (Bal.).
- poal de pou: the one who goes down into the well.
- caduf / cadufo / catúfol: sinia bucket.
- sínia / cini: Ferris wheel (in Mallorca also Cini, as cited by DCVB).
- rosari: chain of deciduous trees.
- corriola: pulley.
- «Fer cadufos»: chochear: «sa padrina ja fa cadufos» (Mall.).
History
- 1316: «per gerras e per cadufs», Majorcan document (Bordoy, Història de Felanitx, DCVB).
- 1434: «two poals de fust garnit de ferro» (BSAL, DCVB).
- 1546: "three daggers of aram" (inventory, DCVB).
- A century ago: iron sinies and cadufos.
- 20th century: the electric motor and pump replaced the sinia; the plastic pole to the wooden one.
- Etymology: caduf, from the Arabic kadus, pitcher (DCVB).
On veure'n
- Sínies preserved in the Pla and the Migjorn (see sinies i molins de sang ).
- Museum of Mallorca, ethnological section (Wall) : Wall is a land of sinies (pieces to be verified).
- Fang Museum (Marratxí) (clay cadufs, to be verified).
Why is it design
- Repeated module: a single container multiplied in a chain makes a continuous machine.
- Hole in the bottom: a minimal detail that changes the behavior of the entire machine (to verify function).
- Reusable: a broken cadufo becomes a ximbomba box ( ximbomba ) or a flower pot.
For the project
- Piece: clay cadufo as an object (pot, lamp, lattice module) with a pot from Marratxí.
- Atlas: animation of the cadufos rosary (already proposed in Sínies ).
Frequently asked questions
What is Poal and cadufos (well bucket and waterwheel pots)?
The two containers that draw water from the well.
What are the traditional words for Poal and cadufos (well bucket and waterwheel pots)?
Some words: caduf / cadufo / catúfol, corriola, poal, poal de pou, rosari, sínia / cini, «Fer cadufos».
Sources
- dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=poal
- dcvb.iec.cat/results.asp?Word=caduf
- metode.es/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/118ES-6-13-molinos-mallorca.pdf
Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.