Any reference terms for frozen hide?

[Billy Maxwell]

Jim,
Thank you for that heads up! Nothing was in Riggs either, but as you 
said a switch in a prefix...
Your story is making me hungry for green eggs and ham. Must go rush 
neighbor's Angus on to the ice of the Missouri
just out the door. Billy

Here is a more detail example of how to process works:
I (Billy Metcalf) softened two deer hides today that I brained and 
freeze dried while we
were having a cold spell.  When I thawed them they were completely dry, 
then
they laid around my shop for a couple of weeks.  They were white and 
pretty
flexible.  Yesterday I misted them real good with a spray bottle then 
put
them in a plastic bag over night. Today I pulled them over a cable for 
about
a half hour each then put them in frames and worked them some more to 
make
them lay flat and get a little bigger.  All together I spent about an 
hour
and a half softening them and they were done. Soft.
billymetcalf at telus.net

On Feb 10, 2007, at 8:19 PM, <goodtracks at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> Bill:
> I thought the replies from different ones were interesting and 
> appreciated the sharing of the information, although they did not turn 
> up a frozen hide term.  I looked in my own JODorsey files for possible 
> IOM terms.  There are a number of terms that concern tanning, treating 
> a hide, but nothing that suggests a special frozen processing.  
> However, as you know, by using an instrumental prefix, one process may 
> be changed to another.  For IOM the prefix da-  concerns an action 
> done by heat or freezing.
> A Hidatsa elder shared with me 40 years ago, that when he was a child, 
> that in the winter, buffalo would sometimes misjudge the frozen ice on 
> the river to cross.  At times, they fell through the ice and drowned.  
> In the spring of the year when the ice began to melt, the people would 
> pull out the buffalo carcass even when in stages of putrid decay, if I 
> recall correctly. I was told that the steaks cut from such frozen 
> animals were exceedingly tender and delicious.  I am thinking that the 
> story bears credence towards your information on tanning frozen hides, 
> that were exceptionally soft and of superiour quality.
> Jimm