Cultivator 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 cultivator hoe with a wooden handle. The elongated wooden handle ends in a carved ball shape at the top and has two sharp metal digging blades at the bottom that project from the base of the handle. The blades are in slots in the handle and secured with a metal band wrapped around the bottom of the handle and a rivet embedded in the handle shaft at the top of the blade. There is a short digging blade that extends diagonally upwards and ends in a point, and a long one that is a sharp, curved, hook that bends sharply downwards and ends in a point. The blades are flat and narrow.

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