- Traditional Craft Skills and Arts of Al-Naoor
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Traditional Craft Skills and Arts of Al-Naoor
Al-Naoor or waterwheel is a wooden wheel consisting of twenty-four columns of wooden sticks and carrying and carrying twenty-four clay jugs attached to the outer circumference and used as a tool to transport water to land on the banks of the Euphrates River in Iraq. The waterwheel is a source of livelihood for many of the local craftsmen who make it.
The knowledge and skills associated with its manufacture are passed on through families and through formal education.
Traditional Craft Skills and Arts of Al-Naoor was inscribed in 2021 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Iraq.
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Traditional Craft Skills and Arts of Al-Naoor
Date of Inscription
2021
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