Skin scraper

Museum number:
2-19205
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Accession number:
Acc.854
Description:
Flint skin scraper mounted in wooden handle.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Point Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Point Barrow
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
A. C. Dark
Collection date:
1883
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1945
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 12.3 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. Nelson Pl. XLIX.
Loans:
S1961-1962 #52: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 13, 1962–March 13, 1962), S1962-1963 #54: Florence Rosen (April 30, 1963–May 6, 1963), S1972-1973 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Thomas Roy Hester (April 20, 1973–June 13, 1973), S1973-1974 #29: Archaeological Research Facility/Karen M. Nissen (October 31, 1973–December 3, 1973), and S1982-1983 #4: State University of New York/Peter E. Siegal (August 1, 1982–March 14, 1983)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skin scraper, accession number 2-19205, described as Flint skin scraper mounted in wooden handle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skin scraper, accession number 2-19205, described as Flint skin scraper mounted in wooden handle.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Skin scraper, accession number 2-19205, described as Flint skin scraper mounted in wooden handle.

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