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Caribou Skin Preparation

Caribou Skin Preparation. …And Why it is Important. By Carla Paungrat, Caitlind Paungrat and Charles Martee. Preparing Caribou Skins. Preparing caribou skin is hard work Long ago, girls learned to prepare caribou skin when they were ready to learn this skill. Importance of Preparation.

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Caribou Skin Preparation

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  1. Caribou Skin Preparation

  2. …And Why it is Important By Carla Paungrat, Caitlind Paungrat and Charles Martee

  3. Preparing Caribou Skins • Preparing caribou skin is hard work • Long ago, girls learned to prepare caribou skin when they were ready to learn this skill

  4. Importance of Preparation • Preparing caribou skins was important for survival of Inuit. • Sometimes boys and men would help to scrape or stretch skins if necessary

  5. How were skins used? • Skins were used for clothing such as kamiks, parkas, pants, and mitts • They were also used for tents, containers, sled runners, drums and many other useful items

  6. Caribou Clothing • Caribou clothing is warm because each caribou hair has honeycomb-like cells. The hairs trap air and act as insulators

  7. Tools Used For Skin Preparation • Some of the tools needed to prepare skins are Tasiuktirut, Tusiuktirut, Ipiksaut, Iktuksit, Hakuut, and Ulu • Traditionally these were made of bone, stone, and occasionally metal if it was found

  8. Skin Preparation: First Steps* Be prepared for sore muscles! • 1. Dry the skin • 2. Work overly dried areas • 3. Curing the Epidermal Layer • 4. Fracturing or cracking the Epidermal layer • 5. Wetting the Mami (we used a spray bottle) • 6. Folding the skin • 7. Seeping • 8. First Stretching

  9. Stretching

  10. Last Steps in Caribou Skin Preparation • 9. Chewing • 10. Scraping to remove the Hypodermis • 11. Slight dampening • 12. Final stretching • 13. Aligning the sides • 14. Marking the middle • 15. The completed middle line • 16. Folded skins

  11. The Caribou Skin Turns White as it is Prepared

  12. Do People Still Prepare Caribou Skins? • Caribou skins are still prepared today • They are used to make warm clothing, blankets, and sleeping bags for the land

  13. Thank You

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