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Scraper

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Accession no.: Y: 72/18/64
Title: Scraper
Description: Scraper, for skin, bone. Labrador Inuit. Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada, 1904-1915.
Object type: Scraper
Classified name:
Current cultural affiliation: Labrador Inuit
Former cultural affiliation: Labrador Eskimo
Current place name: Canada > Newfoundland > Labrador
Keyword(s): Tools
Field collection:
Person: grenfell
Place: Canada > Newfoundland > Labrador
Date: 1904
Number of items: 1
Full description:

Scraper: For skin. Made from a single piece of bone cut into roughly square shape. Curves upwards at cutting edge.

Related records:
  • SPRI Archives MS 1014/2/1-4 Basil Woodd-Walker Descriptions of artifacts
  • SPRI Archives MS 1014/1/1-6 Letters (6) to B. Woodd-Walker, 1902-16. Sir W.T. Grenfell
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 108mm; height: ?mm; length: 114mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: ?mm