Hide tanner Kenneth Cook holds up deer hides he “brain-tanned.” Cook explains that leather made using this traditional technique is more durable and strong enough to stand up to traditional stitch work compared with commercially tanned leather. (Aaron Bolton for KHN)
July 6, 2022
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Kenneth Cook used a mallet and a chisel to crack into a pig’s skull in the gravel driveway outside his home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana.