Fleshing and Scraping a Hide
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| Database ID | 32528 | |
| Institution | Northern Saskatchewan Archives | |
| Fonds/Collection | DNS Academic Education Branch | |
| File/Item Reference | Fleshing and Scraping a Hide | |
| Date of creation | 1970s | |
| Physical description/extent | 17 slides | |
| Number of images | 17 | |
| Historical note | Photographs taken at various northern locations during the 1970s by Lois Dalby and other staff and contract employees of the Academic Education Branch of the Department of Northern Saskatchewan showing the process of fleshing and scraping a hide. (For other stages of hide preparation see the photo sets 'Tanning a Hide' and 'Smoking a Moose Hide'.) | |
| Scope and content | A set of 17 photos showing the fleshing and scraping of hides to be used in making leather jackets, moccasins, mukluks, and other clothing and household items. Taking a hide from skinning the animal to producing fine leather is a very labour-intensive process involving many steps and the use of traditional skills, tools, and materials. -p01 to -p02: A hide scraper made from a moose leg bone used for fleshing or cleaning the fat from the meat side of the hide. These tools are home-made and prized by their owners, sometimes handed on from mother to daughter. -p03 to -p05: These scrapers are used to remove the hair from the hide, and would have originally been made of stone or bone. Today they are often made from small axe heads fastened to a wooden handle or from part of an old frying pan. -p06: Mrs. Ratt of Stanley Mission with her scrapers and a hide she has been working on. -p07: The hide is laced onto a pole frame for the fleshing and scraping. -p08: The fleshing of the meat side begins. -p09: A bone scraper being used to flesh a caribou hide by a resident of Black Lake. -p10 to -p11: Others work at fleshing hides. -p12: The hide is then turned over so that the hair side is up and ready to be scraped. -p13 to -p16: The long and hard process of scraping off the hair. -p17: The moose hide is left to dry out. | |
| Contributer | Lois Dalby | |
| Copyright holder | Saskatchewan Education | |
| Other terms governing use and reproduction | Northern Saskatchewan Archives applies to Saskatchewan Education for permission to use materials. | |
| Type | Archival | |
| Primary Media | Photographs | |
| Provenance Access Point | Department of Northern Saskatchewan | |
| Treaty boundaries | Treaty 6 Treaty 8 Treaty 10 | |
| Cultural region | Subarctic | |
| Names | Dalby, Lois | |
| Subject | Family life Lifestyle Cree - Woodland Native clothing Northern Lifestyles | |
| Date Range(s) | 1970-1979 | |
| Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/32528
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