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13168_10680_leather_mallets

1950s
B&W

Massachusetts: Southfield, exterior 3-story house. Cowhide cut into strips and soaked. CU soaking in bundles. Old man with rawhide in front of dirty windows. CU Man’s face and hands as he handles the rawhide. He rolls the rawhide then ties with a rubber band. Pressure is applied in metal tube. Woman saws through leather with machine. Hole being drilled. Mallet inserted into rawhide. A rawhide leather hammer or mallet. Men using a rawhide hammer.