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This article discusses the process of hide working by Yamana people, including activities such as skinning, cleaning, drying, depilation, slimming, and softening. Ethnographic and archaeological information are compared.
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HIDE WORKING BY YAMANA PEOPLE Ignacio Clemente Conte Laboratorio de Arqueología CSIC- Barcelona ignacio@bicat.csic.es
Data from written sources about hide working activities • ♂Skinning of the animal and fat extraction. • ♀Removal of fat adherences and muscular fibers.(Scrapping of the skin, stretching it with stakes or on a wooden grile). . Drying of the skin (During 2 or 3 weeks on the wooden grile or/and leaning it on one of the walls of the shack)
♀Removing of the hair: • - Small Surfaces- Scrapping activity or rooting out of the hairs (i.e. Otter). • - Big Surfaces- Putrefaction Proces, during two weeks the skin is covered with wet soil and grass and sometimes with urine, after that it must be scrapped.
♀Slimming of the skin by scrapping. • - They could add a lubricant substance made with fat and ashes. To allow conservation the skin was impregnated with fish oil, sometimes mixed with powdered red burnt clay. • . ♀Softenning of the hide. Rubbing of the hide with the hands, softening the hardest areas chewing them.
ETHNOHISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION 1- EXTRACTION OF THE SKIN 2- CLEANING BY SCRAPPING 3- DRYING 4- DEPILATION 5- SLIMMING OF THE SKIN (with or without abrassive substances) 6- SOFTENING BY RUBBING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DOCUMENTATION 1- EXTRACTION OF THE SKIN (and/or cutting of the skin) 2- CLEANING BY SCRAPPING 3- DRYING 4- SLIMMING OF THE SKIN (with or without abrassive substances) Ethnographic versus Archaeological Information