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The animal can hardly be said to have a home; 
but he uses a hollow tree as a tenement, or even a 
hole among the rocks. As warm weather ap- 
proaches, the female produces two or three young, 
which, according to Dr. Merriam, are monstrous 
for the size of the mother. They are actually 
larger, he assures us, and relatively more than 
thirty times larger, than the young of the black bear 
at birth. The female has four pectoral mamme. 
Their flesh is eaten by the Indians, but has 
never been liked by white men. The use of the 
quills in ornamentation by our Indians is well 
known, robes, garments, moccasins, belts, pouches, 
weapon-cases, baskets, and everything else being 
ornamented with them by the squaws with great 
skill and often with truly artistic effect; but as 
usual the earliest methods and patterns, when the 
Indians used their own delicate dyes and sinew 
threads, were much better than is seen in these 
days of aniline colors and crude imitations of the 
white man’s art. The application may be made in 
any of three or four ways, as, by weaving or sew- 
ing the quill into the texture of the object itself; 
by winding it transversely about the thread that 
forms the appliqué pattern; by interweaving it 
with the strands of a basket or lashing; or by glu- 
ing it upon the surface. The native South Amer- 
icans did not practise this art, although they made 
a somewhat similar use of bird-quills, as, on the 
other hand, was not done in the northern continent. 
