Museum object · equipment for costume
Wooden clothes pounder
1870s
Camden County, Georgia, United States, Sea Islands, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
Wooden clothes pounder consisting of a tapered blunt end of wood connected to a long thin rod handle. Wood is cracking.
- Catalog date
- 1870s
- Recorded places
- Camden County, Georgia, United States, Sea Islands, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Domestic life; Folklife
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: 2014.312.295
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection