- On View
- Slavery and Freedom Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Slavery and Freedom
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 1850s
- Medium
- wood and metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 20 × 19 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (50.8 × 49.5 × 13.3 cm)
- Caption
- Birds threatened rice production by eating the crop. Workers built noisemakers to scare them away.
- Description
- A wooden hand-crafted field noisemaker, with a gearwheel and two horizontal stiff boards at the top, with a vertical curved board in between, laying between wooden rods connecting the top and bottom horizontal wooden sheets, all mounted on a handle, which rotates freely, making noise as rotated. Part of handle that is between horizontal wooden sheets is jagged (resembling a gear, with identical protrusions around the entire circumfrance). Handle is finished/glossy while other wood is rough and textured. There are nails sticking out of the boards in various places. There are two extra holes in the bottom horizontal wooden sheet, near the center.
- Place collected
- Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Tools and Equipment
- Type
- noisemakers
- Topic
- Agriculture
- American South
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Oprah Winfrey
- Object number
- 2014.312.109
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




