Dressing or currying the hide
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Item Details
TitleDressing or currying the hide
CreatorExline, Edouard Evartt
Dates
Date Created
Descriptive InformationDressing (or currying) the hide: the hide is dressed only on the pelt side. Today, a currying knife with an edge similar to a cabinet scraper is used. The old tanners in the mountains often used a scythe blade for this operation...this tool not having the keen edge of the currying knife, left the hide rough and shaggy.Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12650, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
Physical Descriptions
Mediumblack-and-white negatives
TypeStill Image
Formatimage/jpeg
Box GRSM 12338-12802
Contributing Institutions
Identifiers
Digital IdentifierGRSM12650
Permanent Linkhttp://purl.clemson.edu/1573C03DC195D1735B89D5B019CCB760
Batch ID20160301190133
RightsNo Known Copyright