Skinning
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Skinning is the act of skin removal. The process is done by humans to animals, mainly as a means to prepare the meat beneath for cooking and consumption, or to harvest the skin for making fur clothing
A Kalanga man skinning a goat at the annual Domboshaba cultural festival 2017 in Botswana
Freeing the hide from a rabbit carcass while open skinning
Tanning (leather)
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Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather. A tannery is the place where the skins are processed.
Skinning
…done by humans to animals, mainly as a means to prepare the meat beneath for cooking and consumption, or to harvest the skin for making fur clothing or tanning it to make leather. The skin may also be used as a trophy or taxidermy, sold on the fur market, or, in the case of a declared pest, used as proof of…
Tanned leather
Tanning, 1880
Tanner, Nuremberg, 1609
Peeling hemlock bark for the tannery in Prattsville, New York, during the 1840s, when it was the largest in the world