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Coconut scrubbing brush

The enslaved domestic staff used tools like this to scrub floors, tables and clothes, in their own huts as well as in the 'Great House'.

Ethnography, Eb4 (image/tiff)
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Summary

: Eb4

: World Cultures

: brush

: Polishing or scrubbing brush made from half a coconut.

Coconut scrubbing brush

Current Location

On Display at M Shed, Bristol People Gallery

: Jamaica, Latin America / Caribbean, Americas

: 1980 (circa)

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