60 x 2 x 2 inch straight scythe with 27 x 3 inch blade
- Title
- 60 x 2 x 2 inch straight scythe with 27 x 3 inch blade
- Repository
- Randall V. Mills Archives of Northwest Folklore
- Alternative
- Hutton O'Connor says that everyone in America makes crooked handle scythes, his grandfather in Ireland made straight handled ones and Hutton has replaced the handle with a straight one when the kids broke it. This is the third handle Mr. O'Connor made in 26 years on the farm.
- Collector
- Kodish, Deborah
- Description
- Photograph from the Folk Art of the Oregon Country Project Records, 1979-1980.
- Work Type
- 35mm (photographic film size)
- Ethnographic Term
- material culture hand tools scythes woodworking
- Location
- Coos Bay >> Coos County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 1979
- Identifier
- OFA_79_DK_A81_3
- Item Locator
- OFA/79_DK_A81_003
- Rights
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Rights Holder
- Oregon Arts Commission
- Local Collection Name
- Webfoots and Bunchgrassers: Folk Art of the Oregon Country
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/jpeg
- Set
- Northwest Folklife Digital Collection
- Primary Set
- Northwest Folklife Digital Collection
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Note
- Deceased; Born in Vasa, Finland
- Cultural Context
- Swedes Finns
