Deep Hanging Out by Malcolm Margolin

Author:Malcolm Margolin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heyday

Almost every part of the elk and deer was used because it was considered a tribal violation against nature to waste food. As an example, all hides were skinned, scraped clean, and tanned with the animal’s brains and a mixture of oak ashes. Hides with the hair on one side were used for winter cloaks and blankets, while the sacred Jump Dance and Deerskin Dance regalia were made exclusively from deer hides. Hides scraped clean and devoid of hair were tanned into buckskin and used to make women’s dresses, blankets, winter moccasins, hair ties, knife sheaths, berry winnowing sorters, and various religious paraphernalia such as headdresses. All sinew from the deer was saved as thread for sewing of material, and used as domestic string during the making of personal materials. Elkhorns were converted into tools, money purses, and spoons for the men. Ankle and lower leg bone sections were used for Indian needles and awls. Thus, seldom any part of the deer or elk was ever wasted.

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