scraper
- Museum number
- Am1986,10.60
- Description
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Scraper with wooden handle and metal blade. Handle carved in one piece, the part where the blade is inserted being trapeziform with straight lower edge, the other end ending in rounded knob pointing downwards. Two deepenings for fingers near the blade on the upper side. Blade is inserted into slit in handle and is rectangular in form, lower edge rounded, sides narrowing down somwhat towards the handle, but still sticking out on one side; blade is slightly bent up on sides.
- Production date
- 1985
- Dimensions
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Width: 3.50 - 5.50 centimetres (handle)
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Height: 7.20 centimetres (blade (including insertion into handle))
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Length: 6.40 centimetres (blade from corner to corner)
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Length: 10.50 centimetres (handle)
- Curator's comments
- Attached label: "Tasiuttruti scraper made by John Ullulijarnat; made in 1985." Used by Mary Ullulijarnat, Igloolik, for working caribou and seal skin.
(Expanded description etc., BP, 10/2000).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1987-1990 3 Dec-1 Jul, Museum of Mankind, Room 3; Living Arctic: Hunters of the Canadian North
2001 15 Feb-27 May, BM Room 35; Annuraaq: Arctic Clothing from Igloolik
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 1986
- Acquisition notes
- Collected by J.King, April-May 1986.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1986,10.60