Gut scraper, ~ 500 - 900 AD ·  Alaska, Old Beringsea Culture/Punuk · ID: 3043077

Description

bone, drop-shaped, bowl-shaped deepened, engraved decor on the outside, two slits at narrow ending, slightly dam., minor missing parts at the rim, base.
Such tools were used for scraping the fat from the inside of animal skins.

The object Gut scraper, ~ 500 - 900 AD with the object ID 3043077 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 52.

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Comparing literature

Fitzhugh, William W., Gifts from the ancestors, London 2009, p. 304, ill. 102

Publications

Galerie Flak (ed.), Mémoire Blanche/White Memory, Paris, 2016, p. 17