fleshing tool
instrument d'écharnage
| Nom de l'objet : | fleshing tool instrument d'écharnage |
| Artiste ou artisan : | displayed as example of Naskapi skin preparing tools |
| Numéro de catalogue : | III-B-77 |
| Province d'origine : | unknown |
| Province d'utilisation : | unknown |
| Culture : | Barren Ground Innu |
| Contexte culturel : | Prior to the removal of flesh and fat from a fresh caribou skin, the frozen and often bloody skin was thawed out in warm water. It was then placed hair side down over a short post. A woman hacked off meat and fat with a fleshing tool, of which there are 11 examples in the collection, representing two basic types. The type 1 fleshing tools, seven in number, have large, bulbous wooden handles to provide added weight and driving power...Five specimens have spatulate-shaped steel blades with serrated edges inserted into the split distal end of the handle. The blades of two fleshers are lashed with strips of tanned caribou skin... another two are wrapped with cloth and lashed with babiche - VanStone (1985:21-22).To remove the adherent particles on the flesh side of the skin a peculiar instrument has been devised. The tibia, or large bone of the hind leg of the reindeer, is used for this purpose...If the leg of a deer is not convenient a wooden handle shaped like the long handle of a mortisi |
| Date de fin de production : | unknown |
| Fonctions : | I learned how to use the scraper by watching my mother. My father made it for her. The scraper is made of a silver spoon and it is flattened then sharpened at the round edge. A knife is then used to make teeth around the flattened spoon. It is sharpened after a wooden handle is put on it, and a very strong string is used to attach the blade to the handle. The scraper is wrapped in a cloth so that it does not get dull - Shimun Michel. The scraper is also used to clean the pelts of other animals such as beaver, otter, mink and martin. It is a very good tool to use for cleaning caribou hide and pelts - Manian (Ashini) Michel.It's made out of wood. It's supposed to be for caribou hide - mishiue - Pinashue Benuen.This is mishikun - Munik (Gregoire) Rich. |
| Publications ou références : | Lucien M. Turner. 1979[1894]. Indians and Eskimos in the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula. Quebec: Presses COMEDITEX. James W. VanStone. 1985. Material Culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi: the William Duncan Strong Collection. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. Fieldiana, Anthropology New Series No.7. |
| Établissement : |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | St. John's |
| Province de l'établissement : | Newfoundland and Labrador |
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