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(/) Tortoise shell Exhibited by Tatsushiro Koga 



and Yasutaro Tamaki. 



Hawksbill turtles are grown in the South Sea Islands sue 

 as Bonin and Okinawa. They are used as materials for tortoise 

 shell, their works are highly prized and the making of such 

 works is extensively carried on in Nagasaki. 



(8) Shells and Shell Buttons Exhibited by 



Kajiro Takami, Minokichi Ota, Tatsushiro Koga^ 

 Kajiro Inamatsu, Yoichiro Hirose, Sosuke Ota, 

 Kisaburo Hiramatsu, Gisuke Nakamura, and Gen- 

 jiro Ishida. 

 There are numerous varieties of shellfish produced in Japan 

 of which the ear shell is dried and worked into various finished 

 articles, and the meat canned to be supplied as eatables. Formerly 

 they were exported abroad in the rough state but lately are 

 made in Japan into shell buttons which are also extensively ex- 

 ported abroad.. The manufactories are found in Osaka, Kobe 

 and Oita and various other places while the output is by no 

 means a small amount. According to the latest investigation 

 the total amount exported is 1,500,000 gross, valued at 630,000- 

 yen. Those figures include those articles made of wing shell 

 and trochuo, the materials of which are imported from the South 

 Sea Islands. • ' 



(9) Furs of Marine Animals and their Works Exhibited 



by the Oriental Sea Animal Tanning Company, Kozo> 



Shiraishi and the Takeshima Fishing Joint Stock 



Company. 



Marine animals found in Japan are sea otters, and fur seals,. 



dolphin, sea lion, and sea-badgers. We havealso an abundant 



production of sharks, sea eels, albstross, and other sea fowls which 



