Hide Tanning The Traditional 13 Steps
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2024
- Our new follow-up to the "Hide Tanning the Woodland Cree Way" video has more detail and instruction! *Includes modern alternatives.
Wood Land Cree hide tanning is a traditional Indigenous art form and one of the oldest art canvas for First Nations People.
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Thanks for sharing this skill and knowledge about tanning a hide. I had no idea how much hard work was put into it. No wonder the Native American Indian women were doing it, while the men were hunting and fighting. In those days every part of the animal is used and every one has a job to do. So much has changed in the world we live in.
A lot of time on 1 hide, imagine the work our
ancestors did to clothe
their family !
That's why they obviously make it in a mass production. Like... They do 3 moose leather at the same time or even more
And maybe it's splitted up to groups. Ppl for the leather, ppl that dry the meat, and people that work the bone. And they can help each other
In one day, they have lots of works. Unlike this in video that they only do one leather drying for a day
I tan hides too almost same method. I soo thank you for keep keeping it alive. Evethough societies have changed so much ,we have to keep tradition alive somehow. With a balanced spirit and with respect to the animals.
Human lives matter.
A billion times more than a rat. Or cow. Or bear. Or whatever.
It’s good to see these traditions are kept alive along with hunting , trapping and fishing.
About to tan my first hide, a deer. It's winter, too cold outside and will be doing this in the house.
My dog brought home a small deer head from the bush and thought I'd try extracting the brain with a stick and water that I'd read about. I put a stick into the hole where the spine attached and mushed it a bit then put 2 tablespoons of water in and mashed it up till it was a liquid, it poured out. I should have saved it for the deer hide... It was easy and will freeze the next batch.
Thank you for keeping the Indigenous tanning process alive, it's so beautiful. And wonderful to see so many people interested in learning too.
Holy cow! Who knew it was so much work and such an extensive process
I’ve tanned a great many hides and the method you demonstrate is almost exactly how I learned. I am intrigued at the use of Flour, the next Sheep Skin I Tan I’m going to use your method. One thing I do differently is I completely obliterate the brain before I boil it. Very nice demonstration.
Great video, You got to appreciate the knowledge of the old timers.
Thanks a lot for sharing. What a beautiful tradition and how nice is watching all of you working together, abs keeping your ancestral wisdom alive
Whoever thumbed down should have run a different search. Thank you VERY much for the knowledge you've given. Thanks to you I NOW know an alternative to tumbling and chemical tanning!
I wish I could see this in person to see exactly what is done. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for taking the time to teach this art form . The narration is easy to understand. Many blessings, thank you
Impressive! And no doubt others have mentioned how labor intensive, I’m glad to know this knowledge exists. It’s a good lesson to remember where we came from
Amazing! When I live out in the woods I will use this method! Thanks a billion!
Thank-you so much for your generosity, sharing this knowledge with everyone.
Powerful knowledge and amazing video thank you for sharing with us.
I have watched both of the videos from your college and so appreciate learning about all the work that goes into the process. It made me wistful for the time I lived in northern and western Canada!
Thank you for sharing, esp. as my granddaughter is woodland Cree. As a newcomer I'm trying to learn some traditional knowledge, so I can share in her education, and respect the other grandparents traditions.
I was very glad to see this video on the net, it has great detail on each step. But I think that to gain a good understanding of each step, I would need to do each step a few times. Your hide looked very nice and even and I'm sure that comes from years of working hides. Thank you for walking us through each step you gave great detail.
Yes, you're right. Our instructors have been doing this work a long time. Here is a video of one of the original instructors at the college: ruclips.net/video/SWUCC00yGd8/видео.html
What a great video on how it was done down through the ages... a skill that has survived and well explained by the narrator..!! 👍👍👍👍
Thankyou so much for your thoughtful and patient video
Thank you, thank you so much for sharing this information with us. These are the treasures that the internet should work to preserve.
I usually make rawhide from most of my hides. I get the leather made by a Doukhobor colony in Alberta. They do an all natural tan and prefer if you send the brain along when shipping. A deer hide is a lot of work. I can't imagine doing a moose at home. This is just great and got you a sub.I use pork shoulder blades for my scrapers. They work great. The hide here is just beautiful. It will make many wonderful things. Thanks soooo much. I really enjoyed this.
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Could you please tell me where this place is in Alberta that you send your hides to get tanned is?
Thank you 🙏🏻
Hello again, I had to have a leg amputated so I can only help on some of the process but I have always used this video as a how to guide for the newbies as you do such a nice job of explaining the 13 steps. I was born on a trapline in Northern Saskatchewan 80 miles north east of Waskiseuw so this method is one my grandparents would use. Today I live in north central BC and still make a few square feet of rawhide from a friends cattle butchering. I sooooo miss the smells and feel of a properly tanned hide. They are worth a small fortune here that I am happy to pay for. No acid tanned leather can come close to the wonderful texture of a brain tanned hide. Thanks again my friends. Take care now in these trying times eh !
That was a lot of fun to watch.Thank you for putting it together. It looks like everyone had a good time. I learned that I've been baiting my minnow traps with Indian glue. That's going to make me sound more woodsmanlike sometime later on. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you, I really enjoyed watching your traditional tanning methods. I am a Ngarluma man all the way from Karratha, Western Australia - Aboriginal people of Australia.
God bless you
Great video. Incredible instruction!
Wow this is incredible 😮 I didn't realise how much work goes into this.
Thank you so much. this is such a great video . Hard work. I love it.
To see how much effort putting into this, I would be so proud about wearing a wristband from the thrown away pieces
Lots of hard work and skill thanks for sharing.
great vid. a joy to watch-old school is the best school.thanks so much
I'm wondering where the natives found Downey in the wilderness it says traditional
And sunlight soap
And canvas
So much work wow and its so worth it Beautiful buckskin Leather!
This was great! Thank you!!
Loved the video!
Very informative!
Im exhausted just watching this
Thankyou though for sharing and keeping the traditional method known. 👍
Thank u for sharing this. Very informative.
Thanks for posting this video
Appreciate,the knowledge, it is extremely hard work, as I have taken several bears in my life,and if I have he time my taxidermy guy lets me hang around , I am disabled ,I would like too help the fleshing of the hide, like I mentioned, this is a hard job to do and appreciate,
Very interesting. Sure is a lot of work. I have new found respect for folks tanning their own hides.
Amazing. This is hard work
Very informative. Thank you. Sharing!
That was awesome thanks very good info.
Thank you for sharing
This sure makes you appriciate the old timers, and how they figured out how to do this. Nice video.
I have never seen brain solutions applied to the grain side. Very interesting to see that approach to patching holes as well.
Great video ! Thank you ❤️
Thanks for showing us this 🖤
That is one hella multi-step complicated process. Much respect.
Very hard job. Respect.
Thanks for sharing your method!
Our pleasure :) Thanks for watching and feel free to share!
SkillCult pig hide
Lot of work. Very nice.
Great video, I once worked with a guy Billy Fivecoats and his brother Two Feathers( Not Sure) if that was his TRUE name, but they did a similar tanning. It is labor intensive, took them a couple weeks to do the same thing you guys did so quickly. Also their's didn't come out looking as nice as your's . THANKS.
Awesome thanks!
❤❤❤Beautiful video sister thank ✨👍💯
great video! i wish i could attend your collage! wanted to learn skills like this for a long time but no one here does that sort of thing ;-(
Ai, Kapai to mahi. very good work. great instructions. i am subscribed thankyou.
Very cool. that smoking method to get that color is amazing.
I have always wondered but since you shared this magnificent video, I am now able to have a better understanding. Thank you very much.
awesome!
Thanks for your lesson am planning to open up a college too in Namibia 🇳🇦.
Well done, awesome.
Pretty cool
nice clear video.
I love this
very informative, loved how youu explind everything , made it so easy to understand. Do you have a booklet for sale. Would love to buy one.
Thank you
Well that was easy! What a process. Makes me wonder how many generations it took to get to the method we see here.
That gives you a lot of appreciation for the native Americans,
why? This isn't unique. Humans all over the world have identical processes for curing hides.
CircumcisionIsChildAbuse ah go save some foreskins you hater
Loved watching this. How would you continue if you wanna leave the hide on for use of a winter blanket? Would you skip the scraping step?
Thank you so much for posting video! Would you be willing to share brain mixture recipe for bison?
it would be the same!
depending on the size of the hide you would use 1-2 brains, and sunlight dish soap or Traditionally Lye soap made from animal fat and stove ashes was what was used.
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Aewsome VIDEO
thanks, that was cool
Great video. Thanks for sharing this art. Can this also be done with hair on?
Amazing culture ❤, love from Morocco also great techniques. I wish i can participate in some workshop like this in the future, inshaeAllah, long life to the indigenous people of America i dont know why but i feel special connection to you guys since i was a kid guess i am just a fan of the culture 😅.
great video i watched it in class and now its helping with homework from me being a little native american girl i want to try things like this😁❤
It's good that you are teaching this and I know that brain matter is used as a tannin solution but what about pine bark or other things for the process? Still I appreciate what you are teaching, thank you very much for the video. Let's see more!
Very informative video! Thank you. I’m curious about two things: is there a version of this where you leave the fur on like a carpet or fur coat? And two: at the end of this video you were left with a pillowcase shaped hide. Would you undo the stitching to make it back to being a large flat piece or is there an application for this with the stitching left on? Sorry for the silly questions! Thanks again!
very good
So glad I found this as I failed on my first attempt at a large cow hide (Usually only work with white tail deer on fleshing beams)
This has peaked my interest for frame style tooling, since you included many more steps than I typically would think of doing (Usually flesh/soak/scrape/brain/smoke but seeing your in depth extension of these steps will lead me to incorporate this into my normal white tail workings as well!
I always just stretch dry them over my knee near the wood stove in winter, but I believe seeing this simple video will help me to turn out softer hides, as well as going at a cow hide again! Thanks!
Do you have any shared information for the public covering your scraping tools and specs?
Sorry for the late reply! Here is our Tanning Tools video: ruclips.net/video/HR-zbr215po/видео.html
There is a playlist on our account titled Hide Tanning that has many videos you can learn from. Good luck with your tanning!
Good morning, Portage College! Love both the new and old Hide tanning videos. I'm curious to know how I'd go about making my own flesher. I'll be brain tanning my first hide this weekend, and it's the one tool I haven't got. Alternative suggestions are also welcome. Thank you!
ruclips.net/video/UtM5apQCoL4/видео.html
We don't have a step by step video , but we do have a quick over video of how our staff member made one. Hopefully that helps. You can use a moose or deer leg bone to make a flesher and cut the bone to size or a piece of birch you then add a piece of metal, or crave teeth into the bone using a hand saw. With the birch and metal plate you would attach it with sinew / hide or whatever other materials you can find.
Long process but it proved to be well worth all the effort put into the hide.
Thanks!
so this has nothing to do with traditional tanning?
15:24 the trick is to not have any holes. What a weird tanning process with seemingly needless steps.
Can we use same method for goat skin tanning
Thanks! Old ways are best.
Love the way you broke the process down step by step....your traditions are amazing...thank you for sharing
Thanks for this. Plus be good to know what type of knots you use to tie it up etc and also the name of the tools used. Is this the same method for smaller hides like rabbits?
Its amazing how the brain of every animal is just big enough to tan the hide.
Amazing video. Thanks for posting.
I realize that due to course constraints and also modern regulations its impossible to be 100% traditional but what would have been used instead of downey?
amazing. that is it
Well done. I really enjoyed the thoroughness and detail of the video. Thank you
what did they use before soap was used?
Culture is strong ❤️
Before there was soap and butter ? What would the natives use?
Can you freeze the brain and fresh hide if i need to wait to do my hide?
thinning process must be done on hairside of hide?Cant be done on flesh side?if so is it because of the oil from fleshside making it harder for scraper to thin?
There’s a second message in this video. Different ethnicities Working together to finish a project is amazing. It just comes to show no matter what color or size you are if you all work together you can do anything you set your mind to! This is really inspiring! Thanks for sharing this very informative video.
Matthew M because not everyone believes that, unfortunately.
Tremendous
What oil do you add to the brain solution? Im going to attempt a deer this weekend and am so excited