48 second, color/silent, film clip of people engaged in various forms of handiwork. Women are working with leather, perhaps crimping soles with their teeth. Another woman is sitting on a semi-subterranean building grinding something with a...
Trapper Peter Britch scraping beaver hide in Anchorage, Alaska, after trapping trip. April 1962. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4".
Trapper Peter Britch scraping beaver hide in Anchorage, Alaska, after trapping trip. April 1962. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4".
Trapper Peter Britch scrapping beaver hide nailed to wooden board in Anchorage, Alaska, after trapping trip. April 1962. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 2 1/4".
Man on the left uses a tool that resembles a metal garden hoe. The other men are using metal scraping tools, called "tuggaun" in Iñupiaq, which are the same tools used to butcher a whale. Scraping is made easier by freezing the skin.