Any reference terms for frozen hide?

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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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Billy Maxwell" <bmaxwell at mt.net>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: Any reference terms for frozen hide?


> Thank you all for your assistance. Billy
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