Hoe from Liberia

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.

An iron hoe from Liberia. The hoe has a short, carved, wooden handle. The top portion of the handle is stained black. The bottom of the handle tapers slightly outwards. The iron blade is ellipse shape with the long edges of the blade curved inwards towards the handle. The blade projects from the handle at a forty-five (45) degree angle. The tang of the blade is threaded through the body of the handle and bent downwards against the back of the handle. White hand painted text on the exposed portion of the tang reads [R501]. Attached to the hoe is a white paper tag with handwritten black text that reads [R501 - Hoe / Charleston Old Slave / Mart Museum]. The back of the tag is blank.

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