Branding iron
- Description
- This branding iron was used in the 20th century to brand cattle with the letters "HC." While cattle and other livestock were introduced to Puerto Rico and throughout the Caribbean in the earliest years of Spanish settlement, by the 20th century most land on the island was geared towards a cash crop economy based on sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, and other agricultural products grown for export.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- branding iron
- Date made
- 20th century
- Physical Description
- iron (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 cm x 9 cm x 28.5 cm; 2 3/4 in x 3 9/16 in x 11 1/4 in
- place made
- Puerto Rico
- ID Number
- 1997.0097.0138
- catalog number
- 1997.0097.0138
- accession number
- 1997.0097
- subject
- Daily Life
- Cultures & Communities
- Puerto Rico
- Agriculture
- Vidal
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- Home and Community Life: Ethnic
- Vidal
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Title (Spanish)
- Marca de Hierro
- Credit Line
- Gift of Teodoro Vidal
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