Paper, 'The method the Indians in Virginia and Carolina use to dress buck and doe-skins' by unknown author The author describes a method of dressing deerskins used by female Indigenous Americans in Virginia and the Carolinas. The method involves boiling the skins with melted and dried brains of the deer and then stretching them to dry. Subject: Trade Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The method the Indians in Virginia and Carolina use to dress buck and doe-skins; as it was communicated to the Royal Society by the Honourable Sir Robert Southwell, Knt. their President' Communicated by Robert Southwell. Read to the Royal Society on 7 October 1691. [1691]