Experience the fascinating process of crafting a leather horse headstall from buffalo hide. Watch as raw buffalo hide is skillfully cut, stitched, and shaped into a durable and elegant piece of ...
(As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) For centuries, the buffalo provided the essentials of life for prairie natives. The fur and hide were made into clothing and shelter, and the meat was ...
The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and Blackfoot among others - with almost everything they needed. Hides were dressed and made into clothing and stretched onto poles ...
New tanning techniques were discovered that made buffalo hides valuable for the belts that ran factory machinery in the industrial East, and thousands of hunters rushed west to feed the insatiable ...
But the arrival of the railroads in the early 1870s, and a new demand for buffalo hides to be used in the belts driving industrial machines back East, brought thousands of hide hunters to the ...
The puppets are made of buffalo hide and intricately designed, down to the most minute detail of costume and color, to help the audience distinguish between the different characters. In advance of ...