Scraping tool

Oroche

Ussuri Krai, river Tumnin

late 19th - early 20th century

Wood; paint

length 70.0

РЭМ 1870-21

Carved of wood. One end of the handle has a cavity for the nose piece, the other is wide and flat, with figured slit edges, shaped like a slingshot. The middle part has notches to prevent slipping in the hand. The carved part is decorated with a traditional ornament painted with a black dye. The Amur peoples processed fish skin with such scrapers. The nose pieces, generally rectangular with rounded corners, were forged from iron.