Canteen from a plantation

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.

A wooden drum-shaped canteen with two spouts. Drum-shaped, flat sides are the front and back, meant to sit on four metal feet on one side of curved end, opposite two spouts. Two metal cylindrical spouts on top side (rounded-edge), one is larger that the other. Handles on PL and PR sides (rounded edge), metal made into loops (loop on one side has thread tied around it). Strips of metal lining the perimeter on the front and the back.

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