- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 19th century
- Medium
- iron
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 48 × 2 × 3 in. (121.9 × 5.1 × 7.6 cm)
- Caption
- This cooking pot hook came from a slave cabin that once stood on the Brock Plantation in the Princess Anne (Pungo/Backbay) area of Virginia Beach.
- Description
- A wrought iron cooking pot hook. The artifact has a large hook on one end with a smaller hook facing the opposite direction on the other end. The hook has nine holes along its length. The artifact has a pitted surface with spots of corrosion.
- Place used
- Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Tools and Equipment-Culinary
- Type
- pothooks
- Topic
- Cooking and dining
- Domestic life
- Foodways
- Labor
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Brock Family
- Object number
- 2017.39.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.