Joe Grandee Collection
Rawhide is made from an animal’s outer skin which has been washed, scrapped, and rubbed to remove all hair and fatty tissue. While wet, the rawhide is pliable and is cut into various usable shapes and stretched out on stakes around the outside edge. While they were stretched out women would paint geometric patterns or decorate the hide with incised designs. The hide would be shaped or folded to fit the articles held in them.
