Flesher
- Museum number:
- 2-5596
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005596
- Alternate number:
- 3824 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.13 and Acc.88
- Description:
- Metal serrated-edge blade; rawhide hafting on lower hind leg bone of buffalo (probably); rawhide loop strap.
- Donor:
- John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Great Plains, North America
- Verbatim coll. place:
- ; Great Plains
- Culture or time period:
- Blood
- Collector:
- Mrs. Freeman and Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- 1903
- Taxon:
- Bison bison
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1903 and August 1901
- Context of use:
- Used to remove flesh from animal hides.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 35 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1979-1980 #32: Merritt College/Maurice Wolfe (January 14, 1980–May 6, 1980)
- Legacy documentation:
-