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Buckskin is the soft, pliable, porous preserved hide of an animal – usually deer – tanned in the same way as deerskin clothing worn by Native Americans. Some leather sold as "buckskin" may now be sheepskin tanned with modern chromate tanning chemicals and dyed to resemble real buckskin.
Buckskin covers for circular rawhide hide shields, in particular, are inspired by men's visions and can include paintings of humans, animals, or spirit beings, reflecting the owner's personal powers and providing protection. [2] [16] Designs could be obtained from the warriors who received the visions or from medicine men.
Good additions. Anyone willing to talk about brain-tanning (the Native American process of conditioning buckskin with animal brains, in which the softening ingredient is lecithin)? I don't know enough about it. But I would disagree with the change in origin; the OED defines buckskin as the "skin of a buck" with citations back to 1433.
Tanning may refer to: Tanning (leather), treating animal skins to produce leather; Sun tanning, using the sun to darken pale skin Indoor tanning, the use of artificial light in place of the sun; Sunless tanning, application of a stain or dye to the skin (active ingredient in tanning lotion products is dihydroxyacetone (DHA)).
1938. Minimum wage: $0.25 In 2025 money: $5.59 The original minimum wage was a quarter an hour. If that sounds terrible, that's because it was. That kind of pay provided less than two-thirds of ...
A hide or skin is an animal skin treated for human use. The word "hide" is related to the German word Haut, which means skin.The industry defines hides as "skins" of large animals e.g. cow, buffalo; while skins refer to "skins" of smaller animals: goat, sheep, deer, pig, fish, alligator, snake, etc. Common commercial hides include leather from cattle and other livestock animals, buckskin ...
The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...
The French anatomist Paul Broca, for whom Broca's area in the frontal lobe of the brain is named, died in 1880. His own brain became part of the collection of brains held by the Musée de l'Homme. Carl Sagan wrote about holding the brain in his hands in his 1979 book Broca's Brain. The brain is kept in a low cylindrical bottle, fragmented, and ...