Field noisemaker
date: label: Date
content: 1850s
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
notes: label: Caption
content: Birds threatened rice production by eating the crop. Workers built noisemakers to scare them away.
label: Description
content: A wooden hand-crafted field noisemaker, with a gearwheel and two horizontal stiff boards at the top, with a vertical curved board in between, laying between wooden rods connecting the top and bottom horizontal wooden sheets, all mounted on a handle, which rotates freely, making noise as rotated. Part of handle that is between horizontal wooden sheets is jagged (resembling a gear, with identical protrusions around the entire circumfrance). Handle is finished/glossy while other wood is rough and textured. There are nails sticking out of the boards in various places. There are two extra holes in the bottom horizontal wooden sheet, near the center.
place: label: Place collected
content: Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Agriculture
label: Topic
content: American South
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
label: Exhibition
content: Slavery and Freedom
label: On View
content: NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 3, C3 053
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: 2014.312.109
objectType: label: Type
content: noisemakers
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 and metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 20 × 19 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (50.8 × 49.5 × 13.3 cm)