Waterskins

[D B Campbell]

I am attempting this also with some Sheeps stomach....which you need to clean well.

I guess we're all familiar with Marquita Volken's water bag theory, by now (first noted here, I think). So you'll know that it's not the stomach of the animal, which (I think) would be rather fragile, but the entire skin, peeled and turned inside-out, to enable the flesh side to be salted (apparently) and dried, then turned back "inside-in" again and sewn up. Ms. Volken reckoned that the skins on TC looked as if they were from small/medium goats, but she doesn't estimate the capacity (as far as I can see).