One of the most vivid ethnographic postcards to emerge from Austro-Hungarian Bosnia, this hand-coloured view from the Bosnian countryside shows a turbaned man in a vivid orange-and-green vest turning a whole lamb on a spit beside a traditional wooden water-wheel irrigation system — a scene almost unchanged since medieval times. The caption reads Boshlen – Lammbraten mit Wasserbetrieb ("Lamb roast with water-wheel operation"), a typically deadpan Austro-Hungarian description of a scene that is in reality a feast preparation beside an ancient noria. Published by Verlag A. Thier of Sarajevo (catalogue number K 01328), one of the most prolific and historically significant postcard publishers of the Austro-Hungarian occupation era (1878–1918), this card documents both the culinary traditions and hydraulic folk-engineering of rural Bosnia in extraordinary colour detail.

• Caption: Boshlen – Lammbraten mit Wasserbetrieb
• Card no.: K 01328
• Publisher: Verlag A. Thier, Sarajevo
• Photographer: Unknown
• Series: Bosnian ethnographic / genre scenes
• Postmark: None (unused)
• Status: Unused; very good colour, light age toning to back