File:History of Inventions USNM 20 Scraper.png
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English: No. 1. Scrapers; spalls of bard stone with natural edges 99,610
No. 2. Spalls of hard stone with chipped edges for scraping 99,310, 10,910 No. 3. Chipped scrapers with steep edges, specialized ; notched for hafting, 146,229, 99,311 No. 4. Chisel-edge scrapers of fine-grained material. If worked with a blow and not by friction these become adz blades 36.290, 127,719 No. 5. Eskimo scrapers set in grips of wood or ivory that fit the hand, 63,847, 63,852, 24,361 No. 6. Chipped scraper fitting in handle of antler, working like an adz. No. 7. Chisel-edge scraper of fine-grained stone fitted into the end of a curved handle. Pits at the manual end to fit the fingers 43,927 No. 8. Scraper with iron blade, toothed slightly to render more efficient in special work of hide dressing 89,926 No. 9. Currier's tools for scraping and scouring hides 104,688 No. 10. Scraper used largely by merchants in erasing marks from packing boxes. No. 11. Scraper in use among greengrocers and butchers to clean their blocks. |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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