Extremely Rare Historic Diegueno-Kumeyaay Agave Digging Stick, #1540

Extremely Rare Historic Diegueno-Kumeyaay Agave Digging Stick, #1540

Description: #1540 Extremely Rare Historic Diegueno-Kumeyaay Agave Digging Stick. The piece is in excellent condition and has a pointed digging end and a collection number for reference.

Dimensions: 54" x 2"

Condition: Excellent for age

In archaeology and anthropology, a digging stick, or sometimes yam stick, is a wooden implement used primarily by subsistence-based cultures to dig out underground food such as roots and tubers or burrowing animals and anthills.[1] The stick may also have other uses in hunting or general domestic tasks.

They are common to the Indigenous Australians but also other peoples worldwide. The tool normally consists of little more than a sturdy stick which has been shaped or sharpened and perhaps hardened by being placed temporarily in a fire. Fashioned with handles for pulling or pushing, it forms a prehistoric plow, and is also a precursor of most modern agricultural hand tools.[2]

It is a simple device, and has to be tough and hardy in order not to break. (Source: Wikipedia)