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Gardening hoes were used by the women of many agricultural tribes throughout North America and their construction depended on locally available materials.

In the New England area, hoes were often made from sea clam shells - these were large enough to make a reasonable hoe blade. Stone hoe blades were also made, either a triangular type or one with a long stem. In the Natick language of the Massachusetts area these tools were called anaskhomwautowin, from the verb meaning to break up (the soil).

On the upper Missouri River the so-called "village tribes", Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara, used hoes made using the shoulder blade of a buffalo; other tribes used shoulder blades from other large animals such as elk or moose.

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