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Demonstrators show hide work, hand-drum and moccasin techniques at community craft session
Summary
Participants at a Missoula craft session demonstrated hide scraping and preparation, hand-drum construction and moccasin-making, describing tools, timing and steps used in each craft.
At a community craft demonstration, participants showed techniques for working animal hides, building hand drums and making moccasins, describing tools and step-by-step methods they use.
The demonstrations included hide scraping and drying, checking color changes during tanning and specific stitching and hole placement for drums and moccasins. One participant said, “I learned how to do all this here in 1972.” Another noted, “I got 1 hide almost half scraped and got another 1 to do yet.”
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