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The Tanning Spirit

      The Tanning Spirit is a 45 minute video for the beginner and for the seasoned tanner. It is included with The Ancient Art of Tanning Buckskin on Disc Two of the Stone Age Living Skills Video Classics Series.

      The Tanning Spirit covers the accumulation of thirty-seven years of trial and error methods of brain tanning I call "The Tanning Spirit."

      The video takes you from skinning a deer to a finished and smoked tanned hide, ready to be made into usable articles. Please see Thomas J. Elpel's Participating in Nature: Wilderness Survival and Primitive Living Skills for text to compliment the video.

      I have spent years perfecting the various skills and tools that are used in the video. If you need additional help or clarification of any part of the video, please review these Notes and Updates to Tanning Spirit or contact me at:

Melvin Beattie
P.O. Box 7025
Helena, Montana 59604
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Looking for Raw Deer Skins to Tan?
See: Katie Russell, Professional Wilderbabe

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