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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:pre-Incan
Title:Scraper
Type:Food Processing
Materials:copper
Place Made:South America; Bolivia
Accession Number:  MH SK E.11.M.71.1
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College

Description:
A Pre Incan copper T shaped scraper. The cross piece, which is the scraper, is flat and shaped much like a modern airplane wing, 3 29/32" x 11/16", and is slightly bevelled on one side in the middle from scraping. The T shaft forms the handle, is of round copper wire, bent around at the end to fit the little finger, 2 3/4" x 13/64" x 7/64". From the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca.

Subjects:
Copper

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