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20. LEATHERS— Continued. 



a. Prepared from mammal skins : 



Bear-leather. 



Raccoon -leather, used for gloves and upper-leathers of shoes. 



Seal-leather, used for fine shoes and in the manufacture of 

 " patent leather," and by Eskimos for numerous purposes. 



Sea-lion leather, used by Eskimos to cover bidarkas and for 

 garments and beds. 



Walrus- leather, used by Eskimos for harness, tables, thongs, 

 seal-nets and for covering polishing wheels. 



Bison-leather (and buffalo-leather, buff-leather.) 



Ox-leather, with specimens of sole-leather, split-leather, 

 grain-leather, rawhide thongs, whips, leather-belts and 

 saddles, and of calf-skins, prepared for binders' and boot- 

 makers' use, as Russia leather and vellum, and tawed, as 

 parchment. 



Sheep-leather, with specimens of binder's leather, imitation 

 chamois leather, wash-leather, buff-leather, roan, imitation 

 morocco and parchment, with vellum made from skins of 

 dead-born lambs, and manufactured gloves, &c. 



Goat-leather, with specimens of shagreen-leather, morocco- 

 leather, as used for linings, upholstery, bindings, and 

 pocket-books, parchment, drum-heads, &c, with kid- 

 leather, used in manufacture of shoes and gloves, under- 

 clothing, and vellum made from skin of young kids, also 

 skin-bottles used in Asia. 



Horse and ass leather, used in manufacture of shagreen, 

 sole-leather, harness-leather, saddles, trunks, water-hose, 

 purnp-valves, military accoutrements, ladies' shoe-uppers. 



(Chamois leather, {Capella rupicapra,) used for polishing pur- 

 poses and for straining mercury.) 



(Leather of gazelle, (Gazella dorcas,) used in i>acking com- 

 mercial aloes, and of African antelopes, used in packing 

 elephants' tusks.) 



Deer-leather, dressed as buff-leather, chamois-imitation 

 leather, Indian dressed (buckskin,) and for the finer mo- 

 roccos, also manufactured into gloves, gaiters, undergar- 

 ments, polishers, &c. 



Moose-leather in ordinary and buckskin finish. 



