Rolling pin owned by the Snowden family: Museum Object and Cultural History
Rolling pin owned by the Snowden family: Date: late 1800s. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Type: rolling pins.
The object in the museum catalogue
A wooden rolling pin owned by the Snowden family. The rolling pin has a piece of fabric tied to one handle for hanging. A piece of paper taped to the rolling pin reads “From the / Snowden kitchen.”
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: late 1800s
- Manufactured by: Unidentified
- Type: rolling pins
- Medium: wood, cloth
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 16 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (40.6 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm)
- Place used: Knox County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Cooking and dining
- Topic: Domestic life
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Folk (Music)
- Topic: Foodways
- Topic: Free communities of color
- Topic: Music
- Object number: 2024.65.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks from the Snowden Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The displayed image also has an explicit CC0 designation. The underlying object's rights statement is: Public domain Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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