- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ridged iron hoe.
- Long description
- Ridged iron hoe. The triangular handle flares out to form a semicircular cutting edge. [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 08/03/2011]
- Geographical reference
- Manicaland Province Chimanimani District 60 miles south of Chimanimani Webster Ruin
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1600-1700?, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1907
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1907
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal
- Dimensions
- Width: max 115 mm, Length 135 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1907.38.17
- Research and responses
See information about E.M. Andrews archaeological work around Umtali in David Randall MacIver's 1906 'Medieval Rhodesia' p. 35 and on [AP 31/07/2009]
- Associated publications
- Andrews, E.M. 1907a: The Webster Ruins. Proceedings and Transactions of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 7 (1), 62–71. Andrews, E.M. 1907b: The Webster Ruins. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 50 (1): 35–47. [AS 31/08/2010] Andrews, E.M. 1906. Note on the Webster Ruin. Man Vol. 6, pp. 131-133, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/278891] [MJD DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 07/03/2011]
Search terms: Tool, Agriculture and Horticulture, Hoe, Agricultural Tool
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