DCHP-3

beaver stretcher

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a roughly circular frame made from a sapling on which to stretch a beaver skin while it is drying.

Quotations

1948
For that reason beaver stretchers are made of flexible willows or young birches, bent round like a big hoop and the skin sewn in with stitches about two or three inches apart.