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HIDE WORKING BY YAMANA PEOPLE

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

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  1. HIDE WORKING BY YAMANA PEOPLE Ignacio Clemente Conte Laboratorio de Arqueología CSIC- Barcelona ignacio@bicat.csic.es

  2. 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)

  3. ♀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.

  4. ♀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.

  5. Tunel VII site

  6. Excavation of the center of an occupation unit

  7. Instruments used for working hide

  8. Instruments used for working hide

  9. 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

  10. Ethnographic pictures of instruments made on mussels

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