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This carved wooden hand was a fancy support for the sounding board in a church in Buckland, Massachusetts. Sounding boards were not odd in the early meetinghouses of New England and were used to make the minister's voice louder.

 

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Carved wooden hand

creator   Unidentified
date   1795-1800
height   4.75"
width   3.25"
process/materials   wood
item type   Art/Sculpture
accession #   #1954.05


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Interior of the First Church of Deerfield


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