Rawhide is a hide or animal skin that has not been exposed to tanning. Hides are Skins obtained from animals for human use Examples of animal hide sources are Deer and Cattle typically used for producing Leather, Tanning is the process of converting Putrescible skin into non-putrescible Leather, usually with Tannin, an Acidic Chemical compound It is much lighter in color than leather made by traditional vegetable tanning. Leather is a material created through the Tanning of hides and Skins of Animals primarily Cattlehide The Tanning process

The skin from buffalo, deer, elk or cattle from which most rawhide originates is prepared by removing all fur, meat and fat. The American bison ( Bison bison) is a Bovine Mammal, also commonly known as the American buffalo. A deer is a Ruminant Mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. The elk, or wapiti ( Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest Species of Deer in the world and one of the largest Mammals in Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domesticated Ungulates a member of the Subfamily Bovinae of the family Fur is a body hair of any non-human Mammal, also known as the Pelage. In modern English usage meat most often refers to Animal tissue used as food mostly Skeletal muscle and associated Fat, but it may also refer Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water The hide is then usually stretched over a frame before being dried. The resulting material is hard and translucent. It can be shaped by rewetting and forming before being allowed to thoroughly re-dry. It can be rendered more pliable by 'working', i. e. bending repeatedly in multiple directions, often by rubbing it over a post, sometimes traditionally by chewing. It may also be oiled or greased for a degree of waterproofing.

Uses

It is often used for objects such as whips, drumheads or lampshades, and more recently chew toys for dogs. WHIPS is the Acronym for Wh iplash I njury P rotection S ystem, a system of protection against automotive whiplash injuries A drumhead is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a Drum. A lampshade is a fixture that covers the Lightbulb on a lamp to diffuse the light it emits A chew toy is a Toy designed to be chewed Chew toys help to stimulate small animals and birds and also prevent boredom It is thought to be more durable than leather, especially in items suffering abrasion during use, and its hardness and shapability render it more suitable than leather for some items. For example, rawhide is often used to cover saddle trees, which make up the foundation of a western saddle, while wet: it strengthens the wooden tree by drawing up very tight as it dries, and resists the abrasion regularly encountered during stock work or rodeo sports. A saddle is a supportive structure for a rider or other load fastened to an animal's back by a girth. Rawhide is, however more susceptible to water than leather, and will quickly soften and stretch if left wet unless well waterproofed.

Wet rawhide has been used by some earlier cultures as a means of torture or execution, gradually biting into or squeezing the flesh of body parts it encloses as it dries. Torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, is "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental is intentionally Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. When exposed to sunlight, a strip of wet rawhide was stretched tightly around the forehead of the bound victim would shrink; as the material dried and if left unattended, the victim's skull slowly cracks as a result of the pressure.

References in pop culture

In the movie Man of the House (1995 film), as the hitmen try to figure out a way to kill Jack Sturgess (Chevy Chase) and Ben Archer (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), Ben says: "If you really wanted to kill us, you'd wrap us in wet rawhide and leave us in the sun and all of our organs would ooze out of our orifices like a tube of toothpaste. Man of the House is a 1995 comedy Film starring Chevy Chase, Farrah Fawcett, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Zachary Cornelius Crane “Chevy” Chase (born October 8 1943 is an American Emmy Award-winning Comedian, Writer, and television and film Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born September 8, 1981) is an American Actor and former Child actor and Teen idol. "

Sources

• Man of the House at the Internet Movie Database

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