Brain-tanning Deer Hides for Leather – Chumash Science Through Time

Written by Josh Smallwood (Cherokee) While I stood at the kitchen counter with my wife’s blender set on high, I watched the deer brains being blended into a thick strawberry-colored milkshake consistency and wondered how this must have been done by my Native ancestors. As a kid, my dad was the first to pique my interest…

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Brain-tanning Deer Hides for Leather – Chumash Science Through Time

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The process of brain tanning is explained by an Ojibwa elder.

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