Canteen from a plantation
date: label: Date
content: 1840s-1850s
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
notes: label: Description
content: A wooden drum-shaped canteen with two spouts. Drum-shaped, flat sides are the front and back, meant to sit on four metal feet on one side of curved end, opposite two spouts. Two metal cylindrical spouts on top side (rounded-edge), one is larger that the other. Handles on PL and PR sides (rounded edge), metal made into loops (loop on one side has thread tied around it). Strips of metal lining the perimeter on the front and the back.
place: label: Place collected
content: Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Cooking and dining
label: Topic
content: Slavery
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Slavery and Freedom Objects
label: Classification
content: Tools and Equipment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Oprah Winfrey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.312.86
objectType: label: Type
content: canteens (containers)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: wood, metal, thread
label: Dimensions
content: 11 1/2 × 11 × 5 1/4 in. (29.2 × 27.9 × 13.3 cm)