Scraper replications?
Hey everybody,Does anyone have some good pictures or replications of authentic hide scrapers? I want to make a few to scrape a bison hide and I'd like to see how the natives made them first....
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My understanding is that a number of informal tools were effectively employed. The steep fractured edge of snapped bifaces, a clean edged overshot flake, the edges of a teshoa flake of quartzite...
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Totally, forager. This is what I had suspected but all the pictures of scrapers I've seen look really similar and not all that effective. I think overshot edges and snapped bifaces etc could be made...
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The thing about scrapers is that in the majority of cases, you only need the 1 edge, so whatever piece of rock you can put that 1 edge on will do; the shape of the rest of the rock usually doesn't...
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Connor, I don't have any photos of teshoa flakes but they are so simple that a good description will suffice. If I recall correctly the name comes from the Shoshone whose women would pick up a...
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Most of the replies have so far emphasized informal/expedient scraper forms. That's fine, but the labour-costs associated with regular processing of big, heavy animal hides (such as bison) sometimes...
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Here's some pictures of some personal finds. I used these as examples for replication in my projects.Top row 2nd and 3rd from left are hide scrapers. The second one was hafted. Bottom row on left...
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Ken can we see profile shots of the working edges from the ones you've highlighted to get an idea of the edge angles, please; and pehaps a word about your replicative experiments and the efficiency of...
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Steve, you betcha! I'll post'em up later today or tomorrow. Getting ready for an upcoming garage sale. I like goin' to'em, but hate doin'em! Conner, two important things to remember about using...
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Ian I get a 404 not found error on your link. Matsu I can tell you from experience ..none of those " scrapers" look like they would have looked when they were sharp and used. Siturated the way they...
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Quills, Ian's reference is from Tony Baker's website, which you can find at www.ele.net . The reference is under the topic Paleoindian & Other Stuff. Tony Baker has a unique perspective and always...
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Quillsnkiko, I am aware of that. The original question was to show pictures of replications or authentic scrapers. I assure you, these are authentic. And I voluntarily provided pictures of them as...
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Here is a Left Hand view of the hafted scraper that is one of the white ones pictured above. It is the one that is on the left. In this photo, the working edge is on the left. It prolly has a...
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Ken, Thanks for the additional layout of images and information, especially the description of your user experiments. Your brief summary of how far a simple scraper can carry you allows that scrapers...
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Quills, Forager's intervention may already have solved the link problem--if not just ignore the final ">", inadvertently embedded in my hyperlink... Sorry for confusion -- I will try again here:...
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There's a lot of photos of scrapers here: North American Scrapers
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I did not hunt them up and get pictures yet..I was busy with other things today .... anyway great pictures ken...and in your picture the top most scraper ..where you say the working edge is on the...
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Here are some Pawnee scrapers from Nebraska and replicas. The originals are on top and replicas below. They aren't very large. The biggest one may be 1.75" long. They are made from flakes with a...
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The upper ..wider ones look like the ones I got from orcbow.....good looking scraper replications....Stoneknife. They probably would work best hafted on the end of a stick and used 2 handed.There is...
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In looking at the one on top I see a few little spurs sticking out. These would cut thru thin deer skins. My money say's they were usd for buffalo. Mike Smyth
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