- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 1840s-1850s
- Medium
- wood, metal, thread
- Dimensions
- 11 1/2 × 11 × 5 1/4 in. (29.2 × 27.9 × 13.3 cm)
- Description
- A wooden drum-shaped canteen with two spouts. Drum-shaped, flat sides are the front and back, meant to sit on four metal feet on one side of curved end, opposite two spouts. Two metal cylindrical spouts on top side (rounded-edge), one is larger that the other. Handles on PL and PR sides (rounded edge), metal made into loops (loop on one side has thread tied around it). Strips of metal lining the perimeter on the front and the back.
- Place collected
- Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Tools and Equipment
- Topic
- American South
- Cooking and dining
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Oprah Winfrey
- Object number
- 2014.312.86
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




