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Object Number 15-36-10/86367
Display Title Skin scraper or fleshing knife, horse rib. The ends are wrapped in mooseskin.
Descriptions
Object Description Skin scraper or fleshing knife, horse rib. The ends are wrapped in mooseskin.
Inventory Description Scraper, worked bone, curved, ends wrapped in buckskin.
Classification
  • Scraper
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Dimensions Overall: 45 x 3.5 x 2.3 cm (17 11/16 x 1 3/8 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 86367
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (?)
Collector James A. Teit

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