Tool For Dressing Hides
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Edward Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "6896-7. #6896-ILLUS. IN USNM AR, 1889; PL. 93, FIG. 1; P. 589." FROM 19TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "SKIN SCRAPER.-HANDLE OF WOOD; ADZE-SHAPED. BLADE OF IRON, LIKE A PLANE BIT, FITTED TO HANDLE BY A WRAPPING OF BUCKSKIN AND SECURELY FASTENED BY A ROUGH SEIZING OF BUCKSKIN THONG AND RAG. AS THE BLADE MUST BE REMOVED CONSTANTLY FOR SHARPENING, THE LASHING IS VERY RUDELY DONE. LENGTH, 12 INCHES. COMANCHE INDIANS(SHOSHONEAN STOCK), NORTHERN TEXAS, 1868. 6,896. COLLECTED BY EDWARD PALMER."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, North, Texas, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Comanche (Numunuu)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001317
label: USNM Number
content: E6896-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Scraper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm