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fish eggs are well boiled and when they are cooled to a mild warmth they are smeared over the skin and it is again wrapped up in a hard bundle and in 3 or 4 hours until it is dry after which a good scraping ends the process.

Fawn skins are soaked in urine and then thoroughly stretched and then worked with pumice stone and the hands until it dries and the process is ended.

Marmot skins are worked in the teeth [[strikethrough]] und [[/strikethrough]] and hands until soft and then stretched and dried on a frame and are ready for use or they may have a light wash of oil or any softening liquid.

Parchment seal skin ([[?rpa]] is prepared by removing hair and then soaking all the oil out in urine & then suspended upon stretching frame outside in cold weather and it is done.  All the white parchment like integuments are prepared by cleaning well from oil and hanging in cold.

The dark reddish color is given to any skin by soaking the inner bark of the alder over night in urine and washing the skin with decoction.*

In ancient times when people were hunting along the north coast from Aziak Island to Cape Pr. of Wales it was not uncommon for them to be blown or forced across to the asiatic shore by wind or ice and the moment they were seen by the natives there they were killed without mercy

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