leatherworking stamp tool
date: label: date made
content: ca.1940
notes: label: Description
content: The leatherworking design stamps were another tool donated by the paniolo cowboy Masa Kawamoto. The stamps were a metal tool used by Masa to create decorative designs and impressions into the leather saddles. The decorative impressions on the leather saddles may have served a dual purpose of decoration and increasing traction, which helped the rider stay in place. Earlier forms of the stamps were traditionally handmade out of wood, horn, or bone.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Hawaii, Hawaii
label: Associated Place
content: Philippines
topic: label: associated subject
content: Cowboy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0205.09
label: accession number
content: 2012.0205
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0205.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/8 in x 5/8 in x 15/32 in; 9.8298 cm x 1.5748 cm x 1.1938 cm