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

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Baillargeon, Morgan.

Contributor:

Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Series:

Mercury series

Ethnology paper ; 146.

Mercury series. Ethnology ; 146

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Tanning.

Tanning--Pictorial works.

Indian leatherwork.

Hides and skins.

Tanners--Canada.

Tanners.

Tanners--United States.

Canada.

United States.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

ix, 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, [2011]

Language Note:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

9780660199696

0660199696

OCLC:

659177424

Online:

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