As fast as a section of hide was stripped it was thickly covered with salt and rolled up.

This is the preliminary step.

Afterwards the skin, in many places an inch in thickness, is pared down to a condition of pliable thinness.

This work requires hours or even days of hard labor by many skilful wielders of the paring knife.

The skulls and many of the bones are saved when an animal is being preserved for a museum, but when we arrived they had not yet been removed from the carcasses.
Our first object was to visit the hyena, which we found still protruding from the side of his tomb.