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Photo, Print, Drawing Randy Sprouse's seng hoe

About this Item

Title

  • Randy Sprouse's seng hoe

Names

  • Eiler, Lyntha Scott (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • June 26, 1996

Headings

  • -  Commercial gatherings
  • -  Ginseng (Panax quinquefolia)
  • -  Harvesting of fruits and vegetables
  • -  Summer
  • -  Seng hoes
  • -  June
  • -  Molly's Mountain (W. Va.)
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  West Virginia -- Boone County -- Whitesville
  • -  West Virginia -- Raleigh County -- Jarrolds Valley
  • -  West Virginia -- Molly's Mountain

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Randy commented that the squeaking noise made by the head when he twists it acts as a turkey call.

Medium

  • 35 mm Color Slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-LE-C126-12

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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Credit line

Coal River Folklife Project collection (AFC 1999/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Eiler, Lyntha Scott. Randy Sprouse's seng hoe. Whitesville Boone County Molly's Mountain Jarrolds Valley West Virginia Raleigh County, 1996. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000556/.

APA citation style:

Eiler, L. S. (1996) Randy Sprouse's seng hoe. Whitesville Boone County Molly's Mountain Jarrolds Valley West Virginia Raleigh County, 1996. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000556/.

MLA citation style:

Eiler, Lyntha Scott. Randy Sprouse's seng hoe. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/cmns000556/>.