Sugarcane Machete
Object Details
- Description
- Japanese plantation workers used this knife to harvest sugarcane on Hawai`i. The cane sugar industry, which dominated Hawaii's economy from the 1850s to the 1950s, recruited thousands of contract laborers from Japan.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1800s
- about 1930
- ID Number
- 2005.0132.12
- accession number
- 2005.0132
- catalog number
- 2005.0132.12
- Object Name
- machete
- sugarcane harvesting knife
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 21 in x 3 1/2 in; 53.34 cm x 8.89 cm
- place made
- United States: Hawaii, Hawaii
- Japan
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
- Cultures & Communities
- Work
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1289290
