Productive farm tasks: separating grain and hay with a flail (Spain)
1952. Woman threshing with a flail. Val de San Lorenzo, León (Spain) © Alan Lomax Collection at the American Folklife Center. Association for Cultural Equity

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Productive farm tasks: separating grain and hay with a flail (Spain)

Different tasks relating to cereal production, such as sowing, weeding the soil, hoeing, or threshing to separate the grain have been carried out by women everywhere, usually sharing the work with men

Threshing with a flail meant the hay good be used to thatch houses and stables