moose hide
Large cervid pelt
Moose hide is the skin of a moose, typically tanned and used as leather.
It produces a soft, durable material valued for clothing, moccasins, and other goods, particularly in Indigenous North American traditions: She beaded a pair of moose hide gloves.
The term can refer to the raw skin or the finished leather.
- tannedDarkened by UV exposure
- leatherTanned animal skin
- peltFur-bearing animal skin
- furAnimal body hair
- rawhideUntanned animal skin
moccasins · antlers · elk · caribou · tanning · scraping · drumhead · sinew · native · First Nations · wilderness · lodge · trapper · stretching · curing · beadwork · traditional craft · thick
- animal materialsfur, leather, pelt, wool, fleece
- leatherworkleather, tanning, carving, tanner, saddler
- Gwich'in CultureOld Crow, fish camp, dried salmon, mukluks, trapline
- Tlichotraditional territory, self-government, drum dance, drum dancing
- Wabanakibirchbark canoe, fiddlehead, salmon fishing, quillwork, wigwam
- Wabanaki PeoplesPenobscot, Abenaki
moose hidecrocodile leather
Tanned reptile hide
ostrich leather · snakeskin · alligator skin · rabbit fur · sheepskin
moose hidevegan leather
Non-animal hide substitute
synthetic leather · faux leather · pleather · vinyl · plant-based leather