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| I found these pictures on my hard drive from 2006. They are a Recent Indian knife and scraper reproduction. I can't recall who the client was, but I think it was either The Rooms or the Province. |
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| In both tools, the stone blade is held in the wood handle with hide glue and rawhide. Each piece is covered in Red Ochre. |
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| The scraper is a thin, flake scraper and the style of the handle is loosely based on northern scrapers. To the best of my knowledge there has never been a Recent Indian scraper handle found for a stone endscraper in an archaeological site in Newfoundland. |
I know this is a little out of your area of expertise, but would you ever make viking ice skates? I once dug one up at a training dig (worn out apparently, hence it having been tossed in a rubbish heap). I've been curious ever since as to what a pair in working condition would look like...
ReplyDeleteHi Victoriana - sure - I'm willing to try anything!
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