A Native American (Sioux) scraper tool made from elk horn and a steel blade. The scraper has a natural color, dots and lines carved into the handle portion, hollow depression and there is a thong piece of buckskin wrapped around the blade. This scraper was used by Mrs. Red Elk, a Brule Sioux, living at Soldier's Creek Camp on the Rosebud Reservation. Also a Native American (Arapaho) rawhide awl case. It is decorated with multicolor beadwork, quillwork and tin jinglers. The date range for the awl case is 1865 to 1880.
Date
[between 1860 and 1900]
Notes
Accession ID: E.1767; Accession ID: E.1992; History Colorado.; Curatorial note supplied by History Colorado referring to scraper: "belonged to Mrs. Red Elk, Brule Sioux, living at Soldier's Creek Camp, Rosebud Reservation. She was 67 years of age in 1949."; Object ID: E.1767.1; Object ID: E.1992.8; Scanned image from loaned transparency including Object ID.; Title supplied.; R7200200369
Physical Description
1 scraper : elk horn and steel ; 31 x 13 x 5 cm. (12 x 5 x 2 in.) + awl case (20 x 7 cm. (8 x 3 in.))
