1933.9.4

Collection type

Object

Description

Wide iron hoe blade with half socket. [JC [OPS Move] 21/12/2016]

Long description

Wide iron hoe blade with half socket. The blade itself is a wide sub-lozenge shape, having a long curved cutting edge with a blunt end either side and two straight sides which run towards the tang. The tang is bent upwards from the blade and folded up to create the socket. [JC [OPS Move] 21/12/2016]

Geographical reference

Sudan, Republic of

Africa > Northern Africa > Sudan, Republic of

Darfur El Fasher

Person

Field collector Kenneth Stuart Sandford

PRM source Kenneth Stuart Sandford

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1933

Date collected

1932

Acquisition information

Donated: 1933

Materials and processes

Material Iron Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Socketed

Dimensions

Width: max 126 mm, Length: max 251 mm, Depth: max 50 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1933.9.4

Research and responses

K. S. Sandford is probably Kenneth Stuart Sandford. [CW 2/3/2000] According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Darfur is the name of a historical region of the Bilad as-Sudan (Arabic: "Land of the Blacks"), a region roughly corresponding to the westernmost portion of the present-day Republic of The Sudan. It lay between Kordofan in the east and Wadai in the west and extended southward to the Bahr al-Ghazal and northward to the Libyan Desert. El Fasher may be al-Fashir, which was established as the capital of the Fur Sultanate of Dafur in the late 18th century. [CW 2/3/2000]

Search terms: Agriculture and Horticulture, Tool, Hoe, Agricultural Tool