rawhide

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However, during the FBI tests in 2022 at the agency’s lab in Quantico, Va., forensic analysts used a rawhide mallet to strike the gun so hard that components of the gun fractured.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024

Metal ring bits adopted from the Spanish caused distinctive fractures in an animal’s teeth and palate; rawhide bridles developed by Native people wore telltale grooves in the lower jaw.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023

Or if the buckskin has been washed for five days in a row, it turns into rawhide.

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2022

There is also a chief’s coat from the Athabascan people with floral beaded designs, rawhide fringe and red felt ties from the 1950s.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022

Then I pat my pockets where I keep fishing lines and my flint and steel, and bring out my sling, now strung with rawhide.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George