Bateira Erveira de Canelas
The current Bateira Erveira de Canelas was built in 2012 by Manuel Pires, who drew on memories of the art of his father, master «Arnaldo Barqueiro».
In other times, its use was observed in ditches and streams in the region between the Vouga River and the Antuã River, due to its robustness for transporting sea cattle, pastures and cereals from the Baixo Vouga fields.
The «Bateira Erveira de Canelas» acquired this name by scholars of the ethnography of the Ria de Aveiro when they registered it in greater numbers and in larger construction in the parish of Canelas.
The caulking technique used, using black pitch and rice husk, allowed for greater duration and resistance in contact with fresh and brackish waters, as well as in large variations in flow throughout the year, which oscillated between floods in winter and droughts in summer, environments that are so adverse to the conservation of wood.
The cavern is made of olive and oak wood, with the back covering being made of pine. Its measurements, smaller than those of the moliceiro, with only 14 caves, 80 cm of tip and 2m of beam, meant that this vessel adapted more lightly to the ditches so characteristic of the bocage biotype.
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