Posted on Jun 29, 2022
Dogs are sniffing out disease in animals vital to traditions of the Blackfeet tribe
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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.
Cook planned to use the pig's brains in brain tanning, practiced by Indigenous people for thousands of years.
The brains are mushed up in water and worked into deer and elk hides to make leather. Cook said the brain's fatty acids both soften the hide and give it a beautiful white color before it's smoked for waterproofing.
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.
Cook planned to use the pig's brains in brain tanning, practiced by Indigenous people for thousands of years.
The brains are mushed up in water and worked into deer and elk hides to make leather. Cook said the brain's fatty acids both soften the hide and give it a beautiful white color before it's smoked for waterproofing.
Dogs are sniffing out disease in animals vital to traditions of the Blackfeet tribe
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Native Americans
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Leather work
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel hope this works, dogs have been used for decades to help law enforcement, health care and find lost hikers and missing persons.
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