NAACS 2014

   At the 2014 NAACS event (Boy Scout Order of the Arrow activity) near Astoria, OR we taught another leatherwork class.  Participants viewed and handled over 80 different animal skins & hides as well as about a dozen useful items made from animals. 
   The scouts made leather pouches with nametags and decorated with beaver, coyote, deer or diamondback rattlesnake. 
     THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HELPED OUT!!!

Explaining how to make the leather pouches;

Showing Sioux Indian articles made from leather & feathers

Animal hides & snake skins to view & handle; (beaver, anaconda, squirrel, bison, ostrich, rabbit, moose, fox, stingray, mule deer, musk ox)

Animal hides to view & handle; (wolf, fisher, coyote, elk, pronghorn, goat )

Tan leather with raccoon tail, snap rounded closure

Leather with coyote hide + black leather with rabbit hide over snap closure

Blue leather with rattlesnake & pointed snap closure

Brown leather with wide cover & exposed lacing

Black leather with rattlesnake skin & snap closure

Black leather with rattlesnake skin & wide circular cover with rattlesnake skin

Green leather with rattlesnake skin, hidden closure