Hoe with handle
- Museum number:
- 11-44078a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm211144078a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- — (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4708
- Description:
- Hoe; a) handle; wood; in shape of upside down “L”; length 33.5 cm; width 14 cm; b) shell blade attached with coconut twine; length 9 cm; width 19 cm.
- Donor:
- Burt Tolerton
- Collection place:
- Mortlock Islands, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Micronesia; Caroline Islands, Mortlock Island.
- Culture or time period:
- Micronesian
- Collection date:
- 1955
- Materials:
- Shell (animal material) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Hoes (agricultural tools)
- Function:
- 1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
- Accession date:
- May 8, 2000
- Context of use:
- Used in field for taro.
- Department:
- Oceania