Presentation Rawhide Art with an American Indian Motif

Video Transcript

"Hi there. On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Candace Copeland. I'm here to continue with the process of working with rawhide art. You saw in a previous where I was working with the wet rawhide to make a mold and after it takes a couple of days and lots of finger pointing and pressing and tucking and pulling and all of this to get all this wonderful, wonderful detail. This was a full deer hide and on this particular piece I really, this is a mold of an antique poquinie brave named Turtle, and he has such a wonderful face that you will see other's later on in the program that, it's the same mold, each hide is like our fingerprint. Each hide takes on a totally different look. So that the faces can either look like an old seasoned indian or a young buck. They're all individual. So, it's that timing that is so critical, usually a day and a half, two days, as you work on it and come back and forth, back and forth before you can lift it off of the mold. This particular one was an antique piece of plaster of paris that was used in the railroad situation going up to the grand canyon in probably the forties. And it has been used so many times that it has finally crumbled so my little poquino brave named Turtle will be no m ore, but as you can see he is really quite incredible and you'll see more decorated later in the show. Thank you."