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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:American
Title:Slaughtering Hoist
Type:Agricultural Tools and Equipment
Place Made:North America; United States
Measurements:overall: 47 in; 119.38 cm
Accession Number:  MH SK B.23.A.53.1
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College

Label Text:
SKINNER CATALOGUE: A pair of heavy oak beams, hewn and shave rounded, with 3" x 2 1/4" bearings at each end, four holes bored around the circumference for turning poles, and a hand forged staple driven in at the center, to which to fasten a rope by which the slaughtered animal was hoisted up for skinning. Length 47" Diam. 8". Cat. 1/27/1935.

Tags:
farm equipment

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