Pitchfork
Date: 1920s
Artist or Maker: Unknown
Dimensions:
137.2 × 3.8 cm (54 × 1 1/2 in.)
Medium: wood
Credit Line: Indian Arts Fund purchase for the permanent collection, 1928 or 1929.
Place Made:
Valencia County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: IAF.M497
Not on view
Tribal Collection Review RemarksAccording to the participants in the Acoma collection review visit May 22-24, 2018 (Events Record “Collection Review: Acoma Pueblo Review 11”: This pitchfork would be used to thresh wheat. One of the participants said these pitchforks were made from a branch of a large bushe or oak. Usually no shaping is done but rather the branch is shaved and used as is.
In Collection(s)
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