Sugarcane Machete
date: label: date made
content: 1800s
label: date made
content: about 1930
notes: label: Description
content: Japanese plantation workers used this knife to harvest sugarcane on Hawai`i. The cane sugar industry, which dominated Hawaii's economy from the 1850s to the 1950s, recruited thousands of contract laborers from Japan.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Hawaii, Hawaii
label: place made
content: Japan
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content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0132.12
label: accession number
content: 2005.0132
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0132.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: machete
label: Object Name
content: sugarcane harvesting knife
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 3 1/2 in; 53.34 cm x 8.89 cm