Hoe

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A shorter handcarved wooden handle with metal flat hoe head, used as a small hoe. Handle is a grayish -medium wood, that tapers to a point at the end opposite the axe head, with a ball/circle on the end with a indention around the circumfrance between the ball and the rest of the handle. Metal head, uneven surface texture, resembling a propeller, has a hole on one end that the wooden handle sticks through. Top of wooden handle that goes through metal head is painted to match metal on top. Metal handle comes off side with a flat head, oval like with rounded edges (like a fan blade).

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