![]() The back is covered with sinew applied with hide glue. We sell bows made of Osage Orange in a traditional shape for the plains tribes. The cost for this size is $8500, please call for quotes on other sizes, prices vary with a similar size lodge of elk costing more than one of buffalo due to increased sewing. Pictured is a 14-foot lodge made from 10 buffalo bull hides and 3 strips of buffalo sinew. I make tipis of buffalo hides and will consider elk skin tipis for those interested in producing an authentic cover for tribes like the Utes. Many of the painted rawhide articles in our museums are made of cattle. Treated the same as above, the hair is scraped off, and tanned one time to insure whiteness and pliability. In the Fort Hall ledgers, “parfleche” (an old term for rawhide) was sold specifically for trap sacks. ![]() This will also make a strong trap sack when sewed with a thong or heavy sinew. Perfect for reproducing those older incised parfieches.Īnother use for this is cutting into strips for an authentic style rope. Until recently this was impossible to get, but now I’ve figured out how to burn the hair off leaving the dark epidermal layer untouched. Priced at $275 BUFFALO RAWHIDE WITH THE EPIDERMIS These hides are from bulls and are large enough for a pair of boxes or large envelopes. After scraping, these hides are tanned one time, making them white throughout and more pliable. White rawhide hand-scraped, made with no chemicals. I tan only cow elk, they are thinner and softer then the bulls. ft., with average sizes being between 21 and 25 ft. An elderly Apache lady I know still practices the wet-scrape technique.Įverything that was said above about the deer applies to the elk. Karl Bodmer painted a Sioux woman working a hide on a beam in 1833. (smoking included) I also believe this technique was used exclusively by the Indians east of the Mississippi, and practiced pre-1850 by the tribes west of the Mississippi. Most of the raw hides we purchase are pulled ~ meaning no knife maiks to weaken the end product. Please state your needs and I’ll try and match them. What this means for the end product is a smooth suiface. I use a “wet scrape” method to remove the hair and epidermis. This is the same price as a hair on robe. Price: $185 for 1/4 hide and $350 for 1/2 BUFFALO LEATHER (no hair) We sell 1/2 or 1/4 pieces of buffalo for projects. ![]() This pad will also double as a ground cloth to sleep on, as they average 3×6 feet. This is an old method as described by Henry in 1809, “Under each kind of saddle are placed two or three folds of soft dressed buffalo skin, to keep the horse from getting a sore back” (Henry and Thompson,1897, vol.2,p.527]. We cut a buffalo hide down the backbone and fold it in half with the hair out. Price: Add – $100 to $250 EPISHEMORES, BUFFALO PARTS, ETC.Įpishemores is an old word for saddle blanket. Robes painted with earth paints and hide glue. But check with us if you’re looking for a cow hide, we get a few most every year. Buffalo-bird-woman, a Hidatsa woman that Gilbert Wilson interviewed at the turn of the century claimed “the skin of a two year-old bull made the best robe.” (The Horse And The Dog In Hidatsa Culture, 234). What we offer is almost exclusively bulls, we do actively search for younger animals though. Unfortunately, female buffalo are worth too much alive to be slaughtered in any kind of numbers. “The Rocky Mountain Journals of William Marshall Anderson” written in 1834 claims: “Mr Fontenelle asserted this evening, to knowing ones, that the American Fur company at their posts on the Miss & Missouri rivers, traded with the Sioux alone, in one winter, for fifty thousand robes–For this trade, it is remembered the cows only are killed–“ Most of the animals tanned were heifers or young cows. This means tanned buffalo hides purchased from the local Indian tribes. The buffalo trade in the early west started out as a “robe” trade. I think you’ll agree that we are quite reasonable. Check around and compare my prices with the commercial tanned products. By buying direct from the tanner, you by-pass the middle man. All the lacing holes are left in the edges. All holes are sewn with sinew, with a running stitch on the hair side, as seen on the originals. These hand tanned hides are tanned like 120 years ago, scraped thin with a Wahintka (elk horn scraper), Brained, oiled, tanned soft and smoked if desired.
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