An elk antler and wood scraper.
Joseph Henry Sharp Collection
William Henry Jackson
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).
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