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The production of soft buckskin usually necessitates 

 a peculiar process called beaming, in which the skin is 

 laid over the rounded surface of a tree section and 

 scraped with a tool suggesting a draw-shave. Beaming 



Fig. 22. Fleshing Tools. (The two short fleshers are of bone; the 

 one on the left is of iron ; and that of the right, of bone, with an iron blade.) 



tools are thus identified with the dressing of deerskins 

 and in this respect stand distinct from the adze-tool 

 used in dressing buffalo skins. They seem to be used 

 wherever the dressing of deerskins is prevalent and are 



