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Object Number
64-34-10/43970
Display Title
Half a leg of an eider duck used to scrape the fat from caribou
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Scraper, duck's foot stuffed with cloth, small sinew cord for hanging
Classification
- Food processing
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
Northwest Territories
Additional Geographic Terms
Hudson Bay region
Materials
Duck foot, Sinew, Cloth
Dimensions
Overall: 10 x 8.6 x 3.1 cm (3 15/16 x 3 3/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
64-34-10/43970
Provenance
Provenance
Chauncey C. Nash
(1964)
Donor
Chauncey C. Nash
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