Quote Originally Posted by ppetresen View Post
Really interesting and great photo. Do you happen to know when they go about cutting the horn, is it bisected right down the middle and then flattened, or something like cut the the centre and then flattened out in one piece (the way one does with birch bark, for instance)?
I think it "depends". The horn is thinner & hollow near the boss, maybe useful for some applications like making a horn bow.
I don't know how it would be processed for razor scales but you can be sure that back in the day they would've wasted little.