84 ANIMAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



20. LEATHEES— Continued. 



a. Prepared from mammal 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. 

 Rhinoceros-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 iu 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, 



&c. 



Sinews of sheep, deer, goat, buffalo, seal, walrus, and other 

 animals used in manufactures of threads, lines, nets, and 

 snow-shoes, iu strengthening bows, &c, the Babiche of the 

 Eskimos of the northwest coast. 



