hoe
- Museum number
- Af1926,1015.14
- Description
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Hoe made of iron, wood.
- Dimensions
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Height: 40.40 centimetres
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Width: 8.80 centimetres
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Depth: 2.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- See Ethdoc 274 - list of Native Articles collected by Major Powell-Cotton in Chad Colony and Sanga Forest, 1925. This is presumably:
'Hoe - with shaped wooden handle, used by Imbiwee, a man of the Yobodo sub-tribe of the Sara M'Bai, inhabiting the country to the N.W. of the junction of the Nana Baria and the Bahr Sasra rivers, Chad Colony, between approximately 7.40 and 8.50 N and 16.30 (?)[sic] and 17.40 E. The native smelted and wrought iron head lasts two seasons, when it is transferred to the end of a stick and used to dig a shallow hole on either side of the man as he walks along; a woman or a child follows dropping a seed into each hole and covering it over. These two agricultural implements are the only ones used by these people ...bought from the owner at the village of Taysee, Chief Kerry ...'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Acquisition notes
- Af1926,1015.1 to 16 were given by Major P H G Powell-Cotton, and were collected by him in Chad Colony and Sanga Forest. There are associated photographs and documents. The register has comments on each item.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1926,1015.14
