Some taxidermists will tan hides for you. However, it is my suggestion that you research and study different methods used for tanning, and try them yourself! I started with rabbit hides, and now can tan elk, deer, and cow hides. It's a diminishing art, but it's a lot of fun. go to this website it will tell you http://www.braintan.com/articles/furs/george1.html
It is if it is tanned properly.
from the tanned hide of animals.
No. Leather is the hide of an animal that has been tanned and cured for clothing.
Only if you want to keep it. An untanned hide will rot. If you wish to use it for anything, then yes, you must have it tanned....or do it yourself.
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Traditionally now a days they try to avoid using animal hide but if they do it is generally a cow hid that was not tanned as leather.
A tanned prime fur
You star by cutting of the legs and then you skin it betwean the muscle and the hide
Buckskin is the soft, pliable, porous preserved hide of an animal, usually deer, moose or elk or even cowhide tanned to order, but potentially any animal's hide. Modern leather labeled "buckskin" may be made of sheepskin tanned with modern chromate tanning chemicals and dyed to resemble real buckskin
You can make a coat or a rug or just hang it on your wall for decoration. Anything really. :)
The cree peoples wore: soft tanned hide Moccasins, Leggings, Shirts and coat in the summer cause its really cold in the summer
Small, round pyramids made out of tanned animal hide wrapped around a set of poles that are leaning together at the top.