Shrub hook

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 shrub hook. The tool is J-shaped. It has a narrow, squared metal handle that tapers into a diagonal, squared point at the bottom. The top the handle is molded into a curved hook on one side and has stepped on the back side. The hook tapers at the point. The sides of the hook are molded and concave. The bottom of the hook is curved slightly to one side and is covered in white accretions. A white painted rectangle with black, hand painted text on the side of the handle near the hook attachment point reads [R329].

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