Flesher

Museum number:
2-5254
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
67 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
Made of elk leg bone. Serrated edge, wrapped in buckskin, decorated with strands of multicolored beads.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Central Plains
Culture or time period:
Umoⁿhoⁿ
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
For the first process in dressing skins; removing flesh from fresh skins. Also used by other Siouan tribes.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 24 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "webazhabe". Exhibited: UCLMA, "Plains Indians", 1971. References: p. 342, Fig. 70, "The Omaha Tribe", AE vol. 27, Fletcher & LaFlesche. For the first process in dressing skins; removing flesh from fresh skins. Also used by other Siouan tribes.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Flesher, accession number 2-5254, described as Made of elk leg bone. Serrated edge, wrapped in buckskin, decorated with strands of multicolored beads.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Flesher, accession number 2-5254, described as Made of elk leg bone. Serrated edge, wrapped in buckskin, decorated with strands of multicolored beads.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Flesher, accession number 2-5254, described as Made of elk leg bone. Serrated edge, wrapped in buckskin, decorated with strands of multicolored beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Flesher, accession number 2-5254, described as Made of elk leg bone. Serrated edge, wrapped in buckskin, decorated with strands of multicolored beads.

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