Short-handled hoe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1989
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Robert B. Richardson
label: Donor Name
content: Robert B. Richardson
notes: label: Notes
content: Short handled agricultural implement. Handle is roughly smoothed dark wood. V-shaped handle with one short arm, to which is lashed an oval, flat, wooden blade with U-shaped metal blade attached to one end. Lashed together with strips of cane, which pass through the blade in a loop. Some rust on metal blade. Metal plate fastened across crack at elbow. Metal is reforged truck springs, according to the collector.
label: Notes
content: From African Voices exhibit: "To grow peanuts and millet, Jola farmers transformed their long-handled rice shovel into a short-handled hoe by changing the angle of the blade."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Guerina, Casamance River Area, Senegal, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Diola (Jola or Dyula)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 361324
label: USNM Number
content: E423931-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hoe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Handle
content: 64 cm
label: Height
content: 24 cm