84 ANIMAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
20. LEATHERS--Continued. 
a. Prepared from maminal skins: 
Caribou-leather in ordinary and buckskin finish. 
(Reindeer-leather.) 
Elk-leather in ordinary and buckskin finish. 
Antelope-leather in plain, buckskin, and oil-finish, used in 
manufacture of castor-gloves. 
Peccary-leather as used in the manufacture of gloves. 
Hog-leather used by saddlers, shoemakers, and book-binders. 
Hippopotamus-leather used for buffing or polishing wheels. 
BRhinoceros-hide used for shields, targets, whips, &c. 
Beluga-leather dressed as kid, sole, harness, velvet, plush, 
boot, mail-bags, belts, and patent (varnished) leather. 
Porpoise-leather. 
Beaver-leather used in manufacture of saddles, shoes, gloves, 
and trunks. , 
(Nutria-leather (Myopotamus coypus) of South America.) 
Rat-leather used for thumbs of kid gloves. 
(Kangaroo-leather.) 
Leather trimmings used as stuffing for balls, &c. 
b. Prepared from intestines of mammals: 
Parchment from viscera of seals, used by Eskimo for cloth- 
ing, bags, and blankets. 
Leather from pharynx of seal and walrus used by Eskimo 
for boot-soles. 
Parchment from viscera of bears used in Kamtchatka for 
masks and window-panes. 
Viscera of ox used in manufacture of gold-beaters’ skin. 
Bladders of animals used for pouches, parchment, bottle and 
jar covers, and by Eskimo for oil-bottles. 
Viscera of sheep used in manufacture of “ cat-gut,” with 
Specimens of whip-cord, hatters’ cord, for bowstrings, 
clock-makers’ cord, filandre, guitar, violin, and harp 
Strings, angling-lines, &c. 
Viscera of hog used as envelopes for minced meat, sausages, 
&e. 
Sinews of sheep, dear, goat, buifalo, seal, walrus, and other 
animals. used in manufactures of threads, lines, nets, and 
snow-shoes, in strengthening bows, &c., the Babiche of the 
Eskimos of the northwest coast. 
