Scraper
70-9-528
From: Canada | Nain | Labrador
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 70-9-528 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Eskimo |
| Provenience | Canada | Nain | Labrador |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Caribou Bone |
| Description | Tag accompanying object bears note on one side in Speck's handwriting, "collected by Richard White whose wife and family are Eskimo." Verso, in what may be Richard White's handwriting, "Esk. graves 100 miles N. of Nain. These are for scraping children's excrement from skins used for bedding [illegible] (caribou bones)." |
| Length | 13 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970 |
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