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Object Number 38-44-10/12764
Display Title Flesher--made of caribou's shin bone
Descriptions
Inventory Description Scraper of caribou bone
Classification
  • Scraper
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Cree
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Ontario
Additional Geographic Terms Missanbie
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 38 x 5.5 x 6 cm (14 15/16 x 2 3/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 38-44-10/12764
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Henry H. Richardson in memory of Theodore Jewett Eastman, Class of 1901, A.B. 1901, M.D. 1905, 1938
Provenance
Provenance Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman (1888-1916)

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