Grain scoop

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 grain scoop, or feed scoop, with a turned wooden handle. The handle extends through a hole in the flat, semi-circular wooden base of the scoop, with its terminus visible on the interior of the scoop. The handle is held in place with a nail driven though the center of the base. The tin of the scoop wraps around the curved sides of the base and held in place with eight (8) rivets. There are three (3) empty rivet holes. The top and bottom of the tin scoop is rusted.

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