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Culture:American
Title:flails
Date Made:19th century
Type:Tool - Agricultural
Materials:wood, leather, rope, iron
Place Made:United States
Measurements:overall: 96 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.; 243.84 x 3.81 x 3.81 cm
Accession Number:  HD 56.275A/B
Credit Line:Gift of Henry N. Flynt and Helen Geier Flynt
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Two wooden flails in two parts. On "A", the two sections are attached with a rope that loops through a hole the end of the thresher and through a bowed strip of wood at the top of the long handle. On "B", the top of the handle has an iron swivel to which the thresher is attached with leather.

Subjects:
Leather

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