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Koronavia Fern Hook


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      Date: 1900 -

Description: Sickle shaped steel blade attached to long wooden handle used for cutting bracken fern which tends to grow back in cleared paddocks especially after fires. This fern cutter or hook was used by the Ferguson family at 'Koronavia', Flinders Island.

Format: realia
Object: scythes

Titles:
Koronavia Fern Hook

Subjects: farm & garden equipment

Institution: Furneaux Historical Research Association Inc.

Object number: FHR_00215

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