Wooden Handle, Scraper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WOODEN HANDLE ONLY. ILLUSTRATED IN BAE 18TH AR, PT.1; PL.XLIX-9, P.116. ALSO IN USNM AR, 1889; PL.77, FIG.2, P.589. INVENTORIED 1980." FROM CARD: "HIDE SCRAPER.--HANDLE OF HARD WOOD. THUMB GROOVE DEEP AND LONG, OVER WHICH AN EAR-SHAPED PROJECTION IS CARVED. FIN-GROOVE ROUNDED OUT TO GIVE THE APPEARANCE OF A SKULL, AND TERMINATING ONE INCH BEHIND THE STONE BLADE. UNDER-CUT IS NOT WIDE AND IS HOOK SHAPED IN BASE OUTLINE. THE TAILPIECE IS GOUGED OUT LIKE THE RIM OF A BELL. THIS FORM IS QUITE AN ODDITY AND LEADS TO THE CONCLUSION THAT EACH IMPLEMENT IS MADE TO FIT THE HAND OF THE WORKMAN. LENGTH, 5 1/2 INCHES. ESKIMO OF POINT HOPE, ALASKA. 63,849. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Point Hope, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E63849-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scraper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 14 cm