Skin scraper
- Museum number:
- 2-6783
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006783
- Alternate number:
- x-2976 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Skin scraper. Made of bone or antler. Knife shaped, tooth-like edge at base of handle. Incised and darkened geometric designs.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- For cleaning skin of birds and small mammals. Teeth used in cleaning fat, blood, etc. from feathers or hair and for softening hard spots.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 13 centimeters
- Comment:
- References: Nelson Pl. L #1-4 and p. 115.
- Legacy documentation:
-