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The blunt scraper (serdleriaun).[1] 1 (Chesterfield Inlet) is the usual form of this implement; it is of the upper end of a musk-ox scapula, the joint-head being cut so that it forms a convenient handle; 17½ cm long. Four other scrapers of the same bone, from. the Aivilingmiut and Ponds Inlet, have lengths from 14½–18 cm; one of them is for a left-handed worker.

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Fig. 67.Scrapers. 1 : 3.

Three specimens, all from northern Baffin Land (Ponds Inlet, Ulukssan and Anaularealing), resemble the water scraper (kiliutaq) (see 7), of caribou scapula, but differs from it in being much shorter, 9–11 cm, so that they can hardly have been used as water scrapers; presumably they are blunt skin scrapers; all are fairly new. A similar one from Chesterfield Inlet is 13 cm long.

The sharp scraper (sakun).[2] 3 (Iglulik) is a typical sharp scraper: it has a handle of antler, rather widened at the upper end; in a groove is a sharp, rather curved iron blade; 11.2 cm long. 4 (found at Iglulik) is a small, primitive scraper when wood and iron were

  1. ↑ Cf. Boas 1901, fig. 133 c–e, of musk-ox bone.
  2. ↑ Cf. Hall 1879, p. 91. Boas 1901, fig. 134 b.
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