CULTURAL CONTEXT : Skin preparation; Used to soften skins.
DESCRIPTION : A wide, concave-shaped blade narrows to a handle formed by an extension that is oriented at a right angle to the blade. The blunt-edged scraper is used to soften the skins by breaking the fibres.
GEO-CULTURAL AREA : Central Arctic
ETHNOLINGUISTIC GROUP : Inuit-Inupiaq
CULTURE : Caribou Inuit
NATURAL REGION : Baker Lake
PROVINCE : Northwest Territories
DATE MANUFACTURE ENDED : 1930 p
PERIOD : 20th Century, early
MATERIAL : Bone; Musk-ox humerus
METHOD OF MANUFACTURE : Carved
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