Bone Scraper Item Number: A556394-0 from the National Museum of Natural History

Notes

Roughly rectangular, tapers to width of 3.23 cm. Flat (.3 cm thick) except where one longitudinal side curves over to form thickness of 1.03 cm. Two holes along this curved side. Broken in two pieces. Glued together with A556396. 18th century Labrador Inuit. Found in collection. For reference to jaw scraper see: Bird, Junius Archaeology of the Hopedale Area, Archaeological Papers, American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 39, 1945, pgs. 158-159, Fig. 25f.