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Scraper

Gallery Location
Daphne Cockwell Gallery dedicated to First Peoples art & culture
Maker
Eliza Sakakeep, Northern Ojibwa
Medium Metal
Geography
Weagamow Lake, Ontario, Canada
Date 1950s
Dimensions 17.1 x 3.1 x 2.6 cm
Object number 959.50.60
Description
Tools are often made of materials taken from other equipment parts. For instance, metal from saw blades are made into blades for semi-lunar knives. This scraper has been fashioned from the spring of a steel leg-hold trap. The scraper is used to scrape away the subcutaneous tissue of moose skins.
Scraper
Scraper - ROM2005_5384_1
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