A Inuit Finger Pit Hide Scraper

This beautifully carved scraper, missing its wedge-shaped stone blade, has an ergonomic shape that fits a (small) right-hand perfectly when held. Scrapers such as this were used for dressing hides by scraping the fat and flesh from the inside of a skin.

It has carefully formed grooves for the thumb and fingers and a slot to take a stone blade. It was shaped to fit the hand of the woman who used it.

The number 601 (or 109) in white ink is written on its flat base.