86 ANIMAL KESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



21. HAIR AND WOOL-Continued. 



c. Hair and bristles used for brushes : 



Hair of American badger used for fine shaving, graining, 

 gilding, and dust brushes. 



(Hair of European badger used for coarse brushes.) 



Hair of dog used for coarse pencil-brushes. 



Hair of squirrel, marten, sable, kolinsky, and weasel, espe- 

 cially the tails, used in making fine artists' pencils. 



(Hair of camel used for pencils.) 



Bristles of hog and iDeccary used in making coarse brushes 

 for varnishing, scrubbing, &c. 



Tails of horses, buffaloes, &c., used for fly-brushes. 



(Tails of yak used for fly-brushes.) 



(Tails of elephants used for brushes and standards.) 



Sheep's wool (on skin) used for black-board rubbers. 



Hair of deer and antelope (on skin) used by Indians for hair- 

 brushes. 



Ox-hair from the inside of cows' ears used for striping and 

 lettering brushes. 



d. Hair used in other manufactures : 



Bristles used in shoemakers' waxed ends. 



Bristles used in anatomical instruments. 



Hair and bristles used in artificial flies. (See under B, 45.) 



Hair of cattle used in strengthening mortar and plaster. 



e. Hair used for stuffing : 



Horse-hair, straight and curled, used for mattresses and 

 cushions. 



Eefuse hair of beaver and musquash, cut from felting-hair, 

 used for cushions. 



(Down of rabbits used for cushions.) 

 /. Wool used as a medium for pigments : 



Wool flocking used in the manufacture of wall-paper, col- 

 ored felts, and rubber-cloth. 

 g. Chemical products : 



Eefuse human and other hair used in manufacture of prus- 

 siate of potash, with specimens of manufactured product. 



22. QUILLS. 



a. Quills of mammals : 



Quills of American hedge-hog used by Indians in embroider- 

 ing. 



