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Object Number
14-27-10/85846
Display Title
Bone skin dresser
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Scraper, carved bone, etched crosses and punctate circular designs, polished
Classification
- Scraper
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Gitksan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
British Columbia
/
<County>
/
Kishgagass Village
Additional Geographic Terms
Babine River
Materials
Bone
Dimensions
Overall: 23.1 x 3.1 x 0.8 cm (9 1/8 x 1 1/4 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
14-27-10/85846
Provenance
Collector
Lt. George Thornton Emmons
(?)
Donor
Lt. George Thornton Emmons
(1914)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14-27-10/85855 | Bone skin dressers |
Scraper
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Kishgagass Village
| |
| 14-27-10/85881 | Bone skin dressers |
Scraper
|
British Columbia
| |
| 14-27-10/85844 | Bone skin dresser |
Scraper
|
Kishgagass Village
| |
| 14-27-10/85843 | Bone skin dresser |
Scraper
|
Kishgagass Village
| |
| 14-27-10/85845 | Bone skin dresser |
Scraper
|
Kishgagass Village
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Bone scrapers or skin dressers, fragments.
| 01-38-10/67608 | Bone scrapers or skin dressers, fragments. |
Madisonville
| ||
| 07-22-10/72120 | Skin dresser. |
Adze
|
Santo Domingo Pueblo
| |
| 14-27-10/85850 | Horn or bone skin scraper |
Scraper
|
Kishgagass Village
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Skin dressers
| 90-30-10/70590.2 | Skin dressers |
Cortez Mound
| ||
| 48-6-10/29191 | Piece of bone with sharp end - for striking snow off clothing and to soften skin |
Scraper
|
Northwest Territories
| |
| 34-119-10/100561.1.53 | 4 objects. A and B: possibly arrow dressers. C and D: grooved- polished. |
Texas
| ||
| 17-20-10/87236.1 | Beamer (skin dressing tool) made of caribou metapodial used to scrape hair from skin |
Scraper
|
Labrador
|