214 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



licather prepared frooai inamsnal $ikin@. 



Series of different leathers illustrating the manufacture of gloves. 



Which by the hand is rubbed upon the skin. 



Perch hung until the ocher's well wrought iu 



Aud deejily set, producing a soft, mellow, 



Golden, enduring, iuerasive yellow. 



This bufHing named. The process next to bring 



The manufacture through is tinishing. 



A horizontal shaft, tirm overlaid 



With emery, aud by machinery made 



To turn, elaborates the skiu placed ou 



To perfect smoothness, aud the work is done.' 



' " The manutixcture of the different kinds aud styles of gloves is becom- 



ing divided up so that many of our leading manufacturers are making a 

 8i>ecialty of some particular kind of gloves. Some make exclusively 

 heavy buckskin gloves and mittens ; others make exclusively sheep-skin 

 gloves and gauntlets ; others, lined kid gloves of various kinds aud styles; 

 others, unlined kid and autelojie or castor gloves and ladies' gauntlets, 

 thus enabling them to jiay strict attention to their particular branch, 

 and reaching the highest degree of perfection attainable at this age and 

 stage of the business. 



"Marked progress is yearly made in this industry, and it is predicted 

 that in no distant future the finest glomes made in the world will be made 

 here in the two villages of Johnstown and Gloversville, N. Y." 



Porpoise leather. 



Beluga leather dressed as kid, sole, harness, velvet, plush, boot, 

 mail-bag, belt, and patent (varnished) leather. 



26018. Tanned skin of beluga {Delpldnapterus catodon). G. E. Renfrew & 



Co., Quebec. 



26019. Lace leather, " Riviere du Loup en has." Manufactured from the skin 



of beluga {DeliiMnapterus catodon), by the Gulf Porpoise Fishing 

 Comjianj". 



Beaver leather, used in manufacture of saddles, shoes, gloves, and 



trunks. 

 Eat leather, used for thumbs of kid gloves. 

 Leather trimmings, used as stulHng for balls, &c. 



Prepared from iBnteslmes of i»a£aa»QaIl^. 



Parchment from viscera of seals, used by Eskimos for clothing, bags, 

 and blankets. 



6559. Intestine of seal. Used for water^iroof clothing. Cook's Inlet. Dr. 



T. T. Minor. 

 5570. Intestine of seal. Used for waterproof clothing. Yukon River. W. 



II. Dall. 

 6559. Intestine of seal. Prepared and used for clothing. Dr. T. T. Minor. 

 20802. Prepared seal-gut for waterproof dresses. Sitka, Alaska. J. G. Swan. 

 See also numerous garments of this material di8i>layod in the Eth- 

 nological division. 



