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"Unveiling the Tales of Animal Skin

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: 'Nyasaland and its People -- A Nyasa Arab, 1890. Creator: H.H. Johnson

'Nyasaland and its People -- A Nyasa Arab, 1890. Creator: H.H. Johnson
'Nyasaland and its People -- A Nyasa Arab, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42. July to December, 1890

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: John Henry Fisher adobe house, 765 West Highland Avenue, Redlands, California, 1917

John Henry Fisher adobe house, 765 West Highland Avenue, Redlands, California, 1917. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
John Henry Fisher adobe house, 765 West Highland Avenue, Redlands, California, 1917. House architecture and landscape: John Henry Fisher, circa 1915

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Interior of the stone mountain lodge of Mrs. Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek Can~on...c1903 - 1923

Interior of the stone mountain lodge of Mrs. Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek Can~on...c1903 - 1923
Interior of the stone mountain lodge of Mrs. Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek Can~on, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, designed by architect Jacques Benois Benedict, showing cathedral ceiling, fireplace

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Mary Scott Townsend house, Washington, D.C. c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

Mary Scott Townsend house, Washington, D.C. c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mary Scott Townsend house, Washington, D.C. c1910. Photograph shows stair hall with decorative fireplace, furniture, and sculpture at the Townsend house, later home of Mathilde and B

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Mary Scott Townsend house, Washington, D.C. c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston

Mary Scott Townsend house, Washington, D.C. c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mary Scott Townsend house, Washington, D.C. c1910. Photograph shows library with decorative fireplace, paintings, furniture, and books at the Townsend house, later home of Mathilde and B

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Apartment of Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy, 15 West 67th Street, New York City, with fireplace... 1919

Apartment of Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy, 15 West 67th Street, New York City, with fireplace... 1919
Apartment of Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy, 15 West 67th Street, New York City, with fireplace, bear rug, and paintings, 1919

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Bedroom with fireplace, padded chaise longue, sofa, male nude... Greenwich, Connecticut, 1908

Bedroom with fireplace, padded chaise longue, sofa, male nude... Greenwich, Connecticut, 1908
Bedroom with fireplace, padded chaise longue, sofa, male nude statuette, and polar bear rug, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1908

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Bedroom with fireplace, padded chaise longue, window, and polar... Greenwich, Connecticut, 1908

Bedroom with fireplace, padded chaise longue, window, and polar... Greenwich, Connecticut, 1908
Bedroom with fireplace, padded chaise longue, window, and polar bear rug, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1908

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Title Page. Creator: Paulus Pontius

Title Page. Creator: Paulus Pontius
Title Page

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: William Walton Kitchin, Rep. from North Carolina, with Mrs. Kitchin, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing

William Walton Kitchin, Rep. from North Carolina, with Mrs. Kitchin, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
William Walton Kitchin, Rep. from North Carolina, with Mrs. Kitchin, 1912. [US attorney and politician, Representative 1897-1909; Governor, 1909-1913

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Lubra, a young Australian Woman, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Lubra, a young Australian Woman, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Lubra, a young Australian Woman, 1850. Portrait of...a young woman, with her hunting spear. They tattoo themselves only to a limited extent...They wear sheep-skins, with the wool next the skin

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Fingoe Woman, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Fingoe Woman, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Fingoe Woman, 1850. The Fingoe Woman from Algoa Bay was sketched at Port Elizabeth, where a large portion of this tribe is located along the coast as far as Sunday's River

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Sealskin Cap, c. 1940. Creator: Dana Bartlett

Sealskin Cap, c. 1940. Creator: Dana Bartlett
Sealskin Cap, c. 1940

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: George Reinhold Palmstruch, 1753. Creator: Johan Joachim Streng

George Reinhold Palmstruch, 1753. Creator: Johan Joachim Streng
George Reinhold Palmstruch, 1753. Portrait of Georg Reinhold Palmstruch (1686-1757), Cuirass and the Order of the Sword

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Indian chiefs, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown

Indian chiefs, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Indian chiefs, between c1900 and c1930

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Trapper with hides and dogs in canoe, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown

Trapper with hides and dogs in canoe, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Trapper with hides and dogs in canoe, between c1900 and c1930

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Uyowutcha-Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Uyowutcha-Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Uyowutcha-Nunivak, c1929. Half-length portrait of Uyowutcha, an Eskimo child, dressed in fur clothing, Nunivak Island(?), Alaska

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Nato, the goat man-Hopi, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Nato, the goat man-Hopi, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Nato, the goat man-Hopi, c1906. Half-length portrait of Hopi man with animal skin

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Mountain Chief, 1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Mountain Chief, 1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Mountain Chief, 1910. Photograph shows Mountain Chief, wrapped in Buffalo hide, standing outside of tipi

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Medicine Crow-Apsaroke, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Medicine Crow-Apsaroke, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Medicine Crow-Apsaroke, c1908. Medicine Crow, Crow Indian, Montana, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, hawk hide headdress, two earrings in right ear, disc ornaments, shell beads

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Tenaktak wedding guests, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Tenaktak wedding guests, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Tenaktak wedding guests, c1914. Two Kwakiutl people in a canoe, one dressed in bear skin, including paws, and a mask

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Mandan bull boat, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Mandan bull boat, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Mandan bull boat, c1908

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Blackfoot Indian fleshing a hide, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Blackfoot Indian fleshing a hide, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Blackfoot Indian fleshing a hide, c1927

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Sia buffalo dancer. Full-length, standing, facing right, c1926. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Sia buffalo dancer. Full-length, standing, facing right, c1926. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Sia buffalo dancer. Full-length, standing, facing right, c1926

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Dancer with black deer effigy-Hupa, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Dancer with black deer effigy-Hupa, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Dancer with black deer effigy-Hupa, c1923. Hupa Indian dancer holding head and skin of deer

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: A Hamatsa costume-Nakoaktok, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

A Hamatsa costume-Nakoaktok, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A Hamatsa costume-Nakoaktok, c1910. Kwakiutl man kneeling on one knee dressed in skins, hat and other garments

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Drying walrus hide, Diomede, Alaska, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Drying walrus hide, Diomede, Alaska, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Drying walrus hide, Diomede, Alaska, c1929

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Mohave man, half-length portrait, facing left wearing 'primitive' robe of rabbit skin, 1907

Mohave man, half-length portrait, facing left wearing "primitive" robe of rabbit skin, 1907

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Hu Kalowa Pi-Removes the covering, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Hu Kalowa Pi-Removes the covering, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Hu Kalowa Pi-Removes the covering, c1907. Interior of tepee, man kneeling on ground remouving buffalo hide around skull on ground, another male behind altar warming hands by fire

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Food containers, Pokes-Kotzebue, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Food containers, Pokes-Kotzebue, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Food containers, Pokes-Kotzebue, c1929. Seal skin food containers on ground

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Ural Cossack (in the steppes), 1862. Creator: Karpov

Ural Cossack (in the steppes), 1862. Creator: Karpov
Ural Cossack (in the steppes), 1862. Sheet 8 from the album "Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie", volume 1

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Yakuts (From the Lena), 1862. Creator: Karlis Huns

Yakuts (From the Lena), 1862. Creator: Karlis Huns
Yakuts (From the Lena), 1862. Sheet 50 from the album "Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie", volume 1

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Black Eagle-Assiniboin, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Black Eagle-Assiniboin, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Black Eagle-Assiniboin, c1908. Black Eagle, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing buffalo hide, holding wing of bird

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Duck-skin parkas, Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Duck-skin parkas, Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Duck-skin parkas, Nunivak, c1929. Eskimo adult and child wearing duck-skin parkas

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Bear's Belly, Arikara Indian half-length portrait, facing front, wearing bearskin, c1908

Bear's Belly, Arikara Indian half-length portrait, facing front, wearing bearskin, c1908

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Chukchis, Northeast Coast of Asia, 19th century. Creators: Alexander Postels, Victor Adam

Chukchis, Northeast Coast of Asia, 19th century. Creators: Alexander Postels, Victor Adam, Godefroy Engelmann
Chukchis, Northeast Coast of Asia, 19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of the corvette Seniavin commissioned by

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: The International Exhibition: the Algerian Court... 1862. Creator: Unknown

The International Exhibition: the Algerian Court... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: the Algerian Court - from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company, 1862. There are...two glass cases which contain stands of a rich transparent gauzy material

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Skins of animals killed on Show River [i.e. Snow River] on line of A.C.R.R. 1906. Creator: Unknown

Skins of animals killed on Show River [i.e. Snow River] on line of A.C.R.R. 1906. Creator: Unknown
Skins of animals killed on Show River [i.e. Snow River] on line of A.C.R.R. 1906

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Begging Dervish in a Sheepskin Mantle, Second quarter of 17th century. Creator: Unknown

Begging Dervish in a Sheepskin Mantle, Second quarter of 17th century. Creator: Unknown
Begging Dervish in a Sheepskin Mantle, Second quarter of 17th century

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Reindeer Chukchi, 1862. Creator: Zakharov

Reindeer Chukchi, 1862. Creator: Zakharov
Reindeer Chukchi, 1862. Sheet 57 from the album "Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie", volume 1

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Figures prepared by Baron von Hess for a painted window in Glasgow Cathedral: John the Baptist

Figures prepared by Baron von Hess for a painted window in Glasgow Cathedral: John the Baptist, 1862 Creator: Unknown
Figures prepared by Baron von Hess for a painted window in Glasgow Cathedral: John the Baptist, 1862. This great work of embellishing a national monument

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Native American painting on animal skin, 19th century. Artist: Silver Horn

Native American painting on animal skin, 19th century. Artist: Silver Horn
Native American painting on animal skin, 19th century. A Sioux (Dakota) North American Plains Indian painting on skin showing various episodes in tribal legends

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Tanned animal skins hanging to dry in the old tannery of Fez, Morocco

Tanned animal skins hanging to dry in the old tannery of Fez, Morocco

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: High angle view of man working at the vats of colours in the tannery of Fes, Morocco

High angle view of man working at the vats of colours in the tannery of Fes, Morocco

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Men working with skins in traditional Moroccan leather tanneries, Fes, Morocco

Men working with skins in traditional Moroccan leather tanneries, Fes, Morocco

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: 'Love Song', Anticoli Corrado, Rome

"Love Song", Anticoli Corrado, Rome Anticoli Corrado. Date of Photograph:1935

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Ciociara music at a popular festival

Ciociara music at a popular festival Fiuggi. Date of Photograph:1937

Background imageAnimal Skin Collection: Building for the drying of animal skins, Buenos Aires

Building for the drying of animal skins, Buenos Aires Argentina Buenos Aires. Date of Photograph:1890 ca



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"Unveiling the Tales of Animal Skin: From Ancient Defenses to Cultural Artifacts" Witness the epic battle as Ankylosaurus dinosaurs utilize their impenetrable animal skin to defend themselves against a fearsome T-Rex. Journey to Bolivia and discover the intricate craftsmanship behind llama's soft and durable skin, cherished by locals for centuries. Explore Nabta Playa in Egypt, where an ingenious oval house made from animal skins stands with fire below ground, its smoke rising above - a testament to early human ingenuity. Immerse yourself in prehistoric times with an illustration showcasing a herbivorous diplodocus dinosaur gracefully feeding on leaves, highlighting the importance for survival. Step into Cleopatra's world through a captivating oil painting from 1887, where her regal attire adorned with luxurious animal skins symbolizes power and opulence. Delve into humanity's conquest of fire through an evocative illustration from L'Homme Primitif, reminding us how animal skins played a crucial role in providing warmth and protection during ancient times. Marvel at an 18th-century map depicting Quapaw tribe villages painted on buffalo skins – a testament to Native American creativity and resourcefulness in utilizing every part of animals they hunted. Uncover the secrets of ancient conical tepee-like shelters constructed using versatile animal hides that provided shelter for various indigenous communities throughout history. Observe Nootka Indian hunters wielding whaler harpoons captured in a black-and-white photograph from c1900 – their clothing crafted from sturdy animal skin enabling them to navigate treacherous waters with skillful precision. Step back in time as you wander through London's Skin Market captured by Thomas Dale in 1825 (1911), offering glimpses into society's reliance on animal skins for trade and commerce during that era.