Scraper
- Museum number:
- 1-1458
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001458
- Alternate number:
- 42 (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. Cut in half.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwestern 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 5.9 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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