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Treatment of a beaver hide

An Anicinabe woman sitting on the ground is stretching a beaver skin on a wooden support in the shape of a circle with the help of rope. Behind her, we see a bed. Picture in color.

Photo credits: Manianne Papatie

Agnes Papatie in front of a stretched beaver pelt. In Lac Simon, the women are the ones who stretch the beaver pelts to dry them, a job reserved for men in other Anicinabek communities.