1. Hide preparation for robes, parflesche., shields, tepees.
a. All blood, flesh, and tissue scraped from hide.
b. Hide tanned with oil from brains. Comanche now use wringer washer.
c. Hide dried and shrunk, stop here for shields.
d. Hide rewetted and restretched, stop here for rawhide.
e. Hide worked with smooth stone.
f. Sinew loops attached to edge.
g. Stretched by loops and smoked.
2. To prepare a hide surface for painting:
a. Hair scraped off.
b. Interior and exterior surface scraped smooth.
c. Glazed with thin wash of cactus juice, beaver-tail wax, fish roe, boiled bison-hoof jelly, cherry tree resin.