ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 217 



Prepared from fish-skins. 



Shark leather (shagreen used for coverings, and by the Alaska In- 

 dians for boot-soles).^ 



^Leather tvaste. 



Paper manufactured from waste. 



Glue manufactured from waste. (See under 24.) 



Prussian blue made from leather waste. (See under 30.) 



21. Hair and wool. 



Hair used in ireavingr and felting. (See under 8.) 

 Hair used for i^igs and ornaments. 



Human hair as an article of commerce, with specimens of switches 

 and wigs, and also of the trade imitations of hair in jute, horse- 

 hair, &c. 



Goat's wool as employed in manufacture of wigs and perukes. 



Human scalp locks as Indian trophies.^ 



Scalps of animals as trophies.^ 



Hair and bristles used for torustaes (embracing the commer- 

 cial hair and bristles, assorted and unassorted, and specimens of the 

 manufactured articles). 



Hair of skunk, used for fine brushes. 



29340. Gilders' and varnishers' bruslies (black hair; flat). Miles Bros. & Co. 



29341. " " " '' " " " 



29342. <' " '' " " , " " 



29343. " " " " " (round). " 



29344. Dusting-brush (white hair; flat). " 



Hair of bear used for varnishing-brushes. 



29338. Varnish or dusting brush. Miles Brothers & Co. 



29339. "Mottler" brush. '< 



Hair of American badger used for fine shaving, graining, gilding, 

 and dust brushes.^ 



Hair of American badger {Taxidea americana) adapted to the man- 

 ufacture of brushes. 



Hair of squirrel, especially the tail, used in making fine artists' 

 pencils. 



29320. "Camel's-hair" varnish-brush. French style. Miles Brothers & Co. 



29321. "Camel's-hair" coach-painters' color-brush. " 



I See garments in Ethnological series. 



* See specimens in the Ethnological division. 



3 The badger-hair brushes sold in America are almost exclusively manufactured from 

 the hair of the European badger. The hair of the American badger is quite an well 

 adapted to the jiurpose. 



