A better tool is made from the bones of the caribou itself. In the following series of photographs, Mr. John Shae makes a hide scraper from a caribou metatarsal (lower leg bone). Warning: the pictures ...

Your metatarsals are the long bones that connect your toes to the back of your foot. They curve upward to form the arch of your foot. Your first metatarsal is the thickest. Having a shorter first ...