Images tagged "cowhide"

A worker carries dried hides piled on his head. The skins of large cattle from the Hindu states of India are particularly valuable because they tend to have less scars and blemishes due to their holy status.
A worker closes a large barrel filled with hides and chemicals, used for the tanning process at a tannery in Hazaribagh, Dhaka.
In Hazaribagh, a part of western Dhaka reknowned for its tanneries, several workers scrape the chemicaly dissolved fatty layers from the hides with specially designed knives.
An elderly worker carries a dozen cow hides on his head through the narrow streets of Lalbagh, in the centre of Dhaka. Bangladesh, 2015. Christian Faesecke / We Animals Media