Skin Scraper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUSTRATED IN USNM AR, 1889; PL.76, FIG.1, P. 589. CITED IN HAYDEN, BRIAN: "SNAP, SHATTER AND SUPERFRACTURES," IN "LITHIC USE-WEAR ANALYSIS", ACADEMIC PRESS, INC.1979, P. 207-229. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. INVENTORIED 1980. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL. 56, P. 41. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=598 , retrieved 12-28-2021; see web page for additional information: Skin scraper, Inupiaq. This wooden scraper has a stone blade and is carved to mold perfectly into the hand. To prepare animal skins for making clothing, women used scrapers to clean away flesh, fat, and hair, and after drying the hides, to soften them by breaking down their fibers. Skins were further worked by hand using water and fish eggs to make them soft.
label: Notes
content: There is a large blue glass Russian trade bead embedded in the wood handle above the blade, with traces of a dark colored resin around it.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
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, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E63848-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scraper