rawhide

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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

Materials here include repurposed leather, fur, silk, rawhide, shells and snakeskin.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2023

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

From Salon • Aug. 31, 2022

It’s clear from the jump that Phil was in love with him: the butchest cowboy who ever roamed the range, the man who taught him to braid rawhide.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2022

The walls of the low house were four feet thick, and the round pole rafters were tied on with rawhide ropes which had been put on wet.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck