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Trammel with hook

19th century

United States, North and Central America

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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.

This is an iron trammel with its hook. It consists of two attached pieces: a long flat narrow strip of metal with deep notches cut into one side and the long flat rod with a large hook on one end. The notched metal strip has a narrow hole at one end, through which the long hook is threaded. Old Slave Mart Museum numbers are written on the objects that read "R212A" (hook) and "R212B" (trammel points) and "R212C" (loop).

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2017.108.20.10

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