Thumb Scraper
scraper
brown chalcedony, 3.25 inches long
age indeterminate
Found July 1978 on ground surface, Wyoming.
A geologist friend found this while we were walking along the sage lands of northwestern Wyoming. He did not recognize it for what it was and threw it back down. I then retrieved it. It is a scraper clearly worked to make it comfortable to hold and use. It has two scraping edges. One to be held and pulled towards you like a drawknife; the other to be pushed away like a thumb scraper. A small notch knapped into one edge of the tool can be used as either a rest for the index finger or the thumb depending on which way the tool is held.
Thumb Scraper
scraper
brown chalcedony, 3.25 inches long
age indeterminate
Found July 1978 on ground surface, Wyoming.
A geologist friend found this while we were walking along the sage lands of northwestern Wyoming. He did not recognize it for what it was and threw it back down. I then retrieved it. It is a scraper clearly worked to make it comfortable to hold and use. It has two scraping edges. One to be held and pulled towards you like a drawknife; the other to be pushed away like a thumb scraper. A small notch knapped into one edge of the tool can be used as either a rest for the index finger or the thumb depending on which way the tool is held.