Broom
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A broom, also known as a broomstick, is a cleaning tool, consisting of usually stiff fibers attached to, and roughly parallel to, a cylindrical handle, the broomstick. It is thus a variety of brush wi
Sorghum-made brooms with long handles as well as short handles
Broom excavated from Dunhuang, China, dated 200 BCE – 200 CE. Kept in the British Museum.
Making brooms, 2012
Francisco Goya's Los Caprichos: ¡Linda maestra! ("The Follies: Beautiful Teacher!") – witches heading to a Sabbath on a broomstick
Shakers
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The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, are a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded c. 1747 in England and then organized in the U
Broom
…1752–1832) still refers to the "broom besom" as one type of besom (i.e. "a besom made from broom"). Flat brooms, made of broom corn, were invented by Shakers in the 19th century with the invention of the broom vice. A smaller whisk broom or brush is sometimes called a duster. Brooms are used to clean dust…
Historical marker at the Niskayuna Community Cemetery in modern-day Colonie, New York, where Mother Ann Lee is buried
Shaker dance and worship, during the Era of Manifestations
Polly Ann Reed, A present from Mother Lucy to Eliza Ann Taylor, 1851
Hannah Cohoon, The Tree of Light or Blazing Tree, 1845