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).
A scraper with a metal end. 84.803. Kravis Discovery Center. late 19th century. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/84803 (03/20/2018).
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