Bone Flesher, "Tai"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Dec 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT FOR HALL 9 TAKEDOWN (C. VALENTOUR, 3/1998): "SECTION OF LEG BONE TAPERED & NOTCHED AT ONE END. OTHER END PERFORATED TO RECEIVE BUCKSKIN STRAP HANDLE. FRONT OF TOOL HAS GROOVE LENGTHWISE." From card: "Tibial bone of cow with teeth cut at end, "As formerly made"; for about 70 years or more the Plains Tribes have been using similarly shaped implements of iron obtained from traders. Hide dressing bone."
label: Notes
content: Scraper (Tai). Section of cow tibia, one end angled and toothed, rawhide strap attached. 9.25" (24 cm). Records: As formerly made. For about seventy years or more the Plains tribes have been using similarly shaped implements of iron from traders. (L,C). (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.)
label: Notes
content: See: Mooney, James. "Skin and Skin Dressing." In Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, pp. 591-594. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 30, Part 2. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1910. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27846589 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma, 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: 043633
label: USNM Number
content: E233078-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Scraper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Of Bone
content: 23.5 cm
label: Width - Of Bone
content: 5.5 cm