Hide Fleshers

These scrapers were used to clean hides. Hide fleshers are “used to hack down the inner surface of the skin to get it to the right degree of thinness” (Hoebel 1988, 66).

8 Items

late 19th century | metal, leather, sinew

late 19th century | metal, leather, sinew

A scraper with a metal end
Native American; Plains

late 19th century | metal, cloth, leather

late 19th century | metal, cloth, leather

A scraper with a metal end
Native American; Plains

late 19th century | metal, leather, sinew

late 19th century | metal, leather, sinew

A scraper with a metal end
Joseph Henry Sharp Collection

late 19th century | leather, sinew, metal

late 19th century | leather, sinew, metal

A scraper with a metal end
Native American; Plains

19th century | elk horn, leather

19th century | elk horn, leather

Elk horn hide scraper
Native American; Plains

late 19th century | elk horn, wood

late 19th century | elk horn, wood

Elk antler hide scraper
Native American; Sioux

19th century | elk horn

19th century | elk horn

Engraved elk horn hide scraper
Unknown

late 19th century | elk born, leather, sinew, metal

late 19th century | elk born, leather, sinew, metal

Elk horn hide scraper
Native American; Plains