Corn planter used by the Madison family

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A hand-held stab corn planter made of wood and metal used by the Madison family. The corn planter has two wood handles attached to two parallel pieces of wood attached at the other end by a metal tip. The end with the handles is not connected and the parallel wood pieces can be moved apart. One of the wood pieces has a metal seed box attached to it.

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