Bone Scratcher, Ornamented
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Leroy S. Dyar
notes: label: Notes
content: The words "flesh scratcher" and what is presumably the Klamath name for this type of artifact are written on the face of the artifact itself, apparently by L.S. Dyar (based on similarity to his handwriting in accession papers.) For illustrations of this type of artifact see Fig. 6, p. 70 in Spier, Leslie. 1930. Klamath ethnography. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press. This type of object is identified there as a head scratcher, used by girls in puberty rites.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oregon, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Klamath
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005319
label: USNM Number
content: E24130-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Head Scratcher