North American Aboriginal hide tanning : the act of transformation and revival /

North American Aboriginal hide tanning : the act of transformation and revival /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Baillargeon, Morgan.
Imprint:	Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, c2010.
Description:	ix, 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Mercury series Ethnology paper ; 146 Mercury series. Ethnology paper ; 146.
Subject:	Tanning. Tanning -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Tanning -- Pictorial works. Indian leatherwork. Hides and skins. Tanners -- Canada. Tanners -- United States. Hides and skins. Indian leatherwork. Tanners. Tanning. Canada. United States. Handbooks and manuals. Pictorial works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8448907

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Other authors / contributors:	Canadian Museum of Civilization.
ISBN:	9780660199696 0660199696
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-144). Includes abstract in French.
Summary:	"The research for this book began in the early 1980s when brain tanned hide was already very difficult to obtain, very expensive, and Aboriginal hide tanners were difficult to find in Central Alberta. From 1989 to 1991 the author, Morgan Baillargeon, began interviewing as many hide tanners as he could find in northern Alberta, the Yukon Territories and the Northwest Territories, as part of his field research for his Master's degree. His interests in this fascinating traditional art form continues today, and over the years he has interviewed over 40 traditional and contemporary tanners. This book explores the relationship Aboriginal people have with big-game animals killed for food and for the purpose of making tanned leather from the hides. This book also contains the hide tanning recipes from 13 tanners and step by step instructions in how to tan moose, buffalo, deer, elk, and caribou hide using traditional North American Aboriginal tanning techniques. A number of experimental techniques are also discussed at length using bone, stone, shell, and wooden tools."--pub. desc.
Govt.docs classification:	NM24-26/2010E

Table of Contents:

The tanner as artist
Experimental tanning
Faith Bad Bear
Glen Leming
Lillian Wesley
Casey Rowan
Kitty Smith
Irene McIntosh Smith
Gertie Tom
Marge Jackson
Donlin Many Bad Horses
Juliette Menesse-Ferguson
Pauline Bonnetrouge
Mary Cadiaux
David Christensen
The chemistry of tanning / Ruth Mcconnell.