Tool: Grainer
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Scraper. Leg bone of cow, upper end cut with serrated edge, thong handle. 15" (38 cm). Records: Graining tool for hides. A piece of wood is laid in the concave part and the whole thing covered with leather. A thong is fastened to the top of this covering to wrap around the wrist and give the operator a firmer grip. (C, L). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.) This was catalogued as a set with sharpener E152973.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152972-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Scraper