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People working with hides
People working with hides
Object Number 2004.24.29518
Display Title People working with hides
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Manufacture and General Utility
Subject
  • processing
  • Hide
Department Photographic
Date 1981
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Alaskan Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience SHARE
Image Not Available for Large scraper used for working hides
22-34-10/G708 Large scraper used for working hides
Village site
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30396 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Group of men working on arrows at the werft of ≠Gao (headman of Band 3), including !Naishi (brother of /Goishay) using sinew to bind the end of an arrow shaft, "/Gao Music" playing the //guashi, and "/Qui Navel" putting poison on an arrow shaft (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30394 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Man scraping a hide, with his adze lying next to him on the ground (print is a cropped image)
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Carabao hides drying for leather
12-61-70/10861.1.3925 Carabao hides drying for leather
Manila
Kaross, front composed of panels of various brown and tan colored hides stitched
971-2-50/11552 Kaross, front composed of panels of various brown and tan colored hides stitched
Outerwear
Africa
Image Not Available for Stone "rubbing hides"
79-72-20/19922 Stone "rubbing hides"
Grooved Stone
Zapatera Island
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Two men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30393 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Two men digging for poison beetles (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Scraping hides, working on hides": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30395 "Scraping hides, working on hides": Man making a bag from a wild pig skin, with men sitting behind him (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Oukwane's implement for scraping hides, a stick with a small blade inserted in the end, with a ruler for measurement (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.27192 Oukwane's implement for scraping hides, a stick with a small blade inserted in the end, with a ruler for measurement (print is a cropped image)
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Oukwane's implement for scraping hides, a stick with a small blade inserted in the end, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.20796 Oukwane's implement for scraping hides, a stick with a small blade inserted in the end, with a ruler for measurement
/Ai Ha !O Pan
Hunting camp, showing hides
2001.29.10847 Hunting camp, showing hides
Ngamiland (North West)
Red dye (base), used on hides and for some other uses, bought in market place
973-42-50/11757 Red dye (base), used on hides and for some other uses, bought in market place
Unclassified
Wallega