Tool

About this object

Narrative

Percy F. Broughton is thought to have collected this artifact while he served as a missionary with the Church Missionary Society, in Lake Harbour on Baffin Island, from 1911-1912.

Physical description

Small scraper-like tool with a wide blade of thin curved metal. The blade wraps partially around a handle of wood and is attached to it by nails. The front of the blade flares slightly up and out. The handle is short and thick with a curved and thicker butt end. A long crack in one side of the wood has been repaired by a nail.