26747
Accession Number
13465
Title Of Journal Book
Tanned human skin
Collation
0.666666667
Reference Bibliography
Bibliography: p. 3-4
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Monographic
Meeting
Conservation of Ethnographic and Waterlogged Leather: Symposium by ICOM and CRL
Meeting City
Amsterdam
Meeting Country
Netherlands
Abstract
The author describes the history of the tanning and use of human skin as book leather in Europe. He also deals with the tanning and use of human skin by the Jivaros Indians of South America and the Maoris of New Zealand.
Keywords
tanning;history;manufacture;human skin;bookbinding leather; shrunken head
pub_id
26747
Meeting Date
19860609-19860611