Tools used for picking up rice sacks

Title
Tools used for picking up rice sacks
Year/Period
1950s-1970s
Region
Singapore
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2016-00583
Credit Line
Gift of Neo Kim Teah

These tools belonged to Mr Neo Kim Teah, who had worked as a coolie in Singapore from the 1950s to the 1970s. Part of his job was to unload sackfuls of rice from boats docked at the Singapore River, and to transport them to the godowns. Such tools were essential during this process. Mr Neo had arrived in Singapore as a young child in the late 1930s and he had stayed in the Sungei Kadut area.