Gut scraper, ~ 500 - 900 AD

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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.

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Comparing literature

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

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Publications

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

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