Trowel
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- Date created
- 1916
- Culture/People
- Non-Indian
- Previous owner
- Museum of the American Indian - Heye Foundation (MAI-HF), 1916-1989
- Collection History
- Used to lay the cornerstone of the Museum of the American Indian-Heye Foundation building at Broadway and 155th Street in New York City on November 8, 1916; catalogued into the NMAI collections in 2019.
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
- Place
- West 155th Street and Broadway; New York City, Manhattan; New York County; New York; USA
- Island Name
- Manhattan Island
- See related items
- Non-Indian
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 27/231
- Barcode
- 270231.000
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Trowel
- Media/Materials
- Wood, brass, metal, velvet, plaster
- Techniques
- Screwed, glued, commercially produced/manufactured
- Dimensions
- 42.5 x 17.2 x 9.5 cm
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_415707