Spade
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Aug 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
label: Donor Name
content: Rev. Adolphus C. Good
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed on page 69 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the African Tribes (Bantu)".
label: Notes
content: From Card: "Wooden, one iron tipped. For cleaning streets of grass and levelling ground for building. A: wooden spade, 86 cm. long, 11 cm. wide, red color on outside. The working end is tooth-shaped. B: iron-tipped wooden tool. only iron tip found. 2/17/65 The wooden spade is assumed to be a woman's digging stick. Tessmann (Die Pangwe, p. 83) writes: "der Crabstock... ist ein an einem Ende schneidezahnformig zugestutzer Holzstab. Jene ist fur die Frauen...bestimmt.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fang
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025654
label: USNM Number
content: E164863-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spade