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120 pictorial documents about immigration and internal migration in Switzerland
A 18: Object/ box ('Tesselschachtel'), 17th century
These boxes ('Tesselschachteln') were used earlier in our village to determine who was allowed to take water, as well as when, and how much, for irrigation. The water was piped to our village from far away, from the Baltschiedertal, and distributed to various families on particular days. So every family had a 'Tesselschachtel': on this was carved how much water one was entitled to, and on which days.
Luise T.-S., born 1928, from Ausserberg in Wallis, Switzerland