Two-Pronged Hoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
label: Collection Date
content: 1853
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. James H. Morrow
label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "HANDLE IS A STRAIGHT BAMBOO STICK WHICH SLIDES INTO A SOCKET IN THE TWO PRONGED IRON BLADE. WOOD BORERS HAVE EATEN SEVERAL HOLES IN IT."
label: Notes
content: Card has been emended in pencil by unknown person to change attribution from Japanese to Chinese, acquired near Canton [Guangzhou], China, by Dr. James Morrow, who was on Perry Expedition. The expedition was in Canton in 1853 and 1854. Morrow was a South Carolina physician with interests in natural history and scientific farming. Rev. Samuel Wells Williams and Morrow were appointed to collect botanical specimens on the expedition.
label: Notes
content: As of 2016, only the handle for this hoe is present. See Morrow, James, and Allan B. Cole. 1947. A Scientist with Perry in Japan : the Journal of Dr. James Morrow. Edited by Allan B. Cole. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press. On p. 72 of the book, Morrow describes an excursion he took October 25, 1853 in the countryside near Canton (Guangzhou) when he purchased a hoe (see # 12 in plate opposite p. 38); see also page 221 where Morrow records purchasing several hoes of various sizes in China.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Jun 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Guangzhou (Canton) (near), Guangdong Province (Canton), China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E377-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hoe Handle