Scraper
- Museum number:
- 1-1457
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001457
- Alternate number:
- 41 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.17 and Acc.86
- Description:
- Fiber scraper, shell; pair of holes at center with twine passed through for finger grip.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1901
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Scrapers (stone tools)
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1903 and November 20, 1901
- Context of use:
- For scraping fiber from iris leaf to make twine.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 6.8 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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