Bear Meat And Hide Preparation

A set of 17 photographs of Lydia and Napthelie McKenzie and their daughter Jemima Charles on their trapline near Stanley Mission preparing the meat and hide of a bear shot by their son Malcolm McKenzie. -p01 to -p03: Lydia and Jemima and the boys skin the bear. -p04: The hide is hung over a pole set in the ground and Lydia fleshes it while Jemima holds it in place. -p05: Malcolm, the hunter, tries his hand at fleshing. -p06: Jemima continues with the fleshing. -p07: Jemima removes the fat and flesh from the inside of the hide. -p08: Some of the meat brought from the kill site. -p09: Lydia prepares the meat for smoking by cutting it into thin slices. -p10: The boys wash and clean the intestines. -p11: Some of the meat is boiled in a pot. -p12: Other meat is cooked in a frying pan for lunch. -p13: A bear chop is served up, along with moose pemmican. -p14 to -p15: Meat being smoked, along with some fish. -p16: All the meat must be cooked or smoked as it will not keep long in the summer. -p17: Lydia and Napthelie admire the stretched bear hide. -p18: This is the first bear their oldest son Malcolm has ever shot.

Historical note:

Photographs of Lydia and Napthelie McKenzie and their daughter Jemima Charles on their trapline near Stanley Mission, taken by Lois Dalby of the Academic Education Branch of the Department of Northern Saskatchewan in 1974.