Dressing or currying the hide

TitleDressing or currying the hide

CreatorExline, Edouard Evartt

CollectionsNegatives of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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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)

LocationsCove Creek, Sevier County, Tennessee, United States(35.78565,-83.6285)

TopicsFarms

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