Tour the East Hall of the National Museum After the First Fifty Years

Made of cottonwood, Populus monilifera, with handle of Rocky Mountain white oak, Quercus undulatus, by the Pueblo and other Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. Body, 3 feet long; 4 inches square. Handle, 2 feet 7 inches long.

This plow is almost identical in shape with those shown on ancient Egyptian monuments, and is the pattern which, throughout the entire world, has marked the first effort of the husbandman to reduce the labor of turning the soil with hoes. The body and share are of one piece of cottonwood, pointed at the forward end. From the top of the body, at the base of the share, there projects an upright stick of some hard, finegrained wood to which the draught animal is hitched. Behind is a single handle, slightly bent at the upper end for convenience of grasp.

Return to start of the East Hall of the National Museum in 1886