86 ANIMAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



21. HAIR AND WOOL -Continued. 



c. Hair and bristles used for brushes : 



Hair of American badger used for fine shaving, grainiug, 

 gilding, and dust brushes. 



(Hair of European badger used for coarse brushes.) 



Hair of dog used for coarse pencil-brushes. 



Hair of squirrel, marten, sable, kolinsky, and weasel, espe- 

 cially the tails, used in making flue artists' pencils. 



(Hair of camel used for pencils.) 



Bristles of hog and peccary used in making coarse brushes 

 for varnishing, scrubbing, &c. 



Tails of horses, buffaloes, &c, used for fly-brushes. 



(Tails of yak used for fly-brushes.) 



(Tails of elephants used for brushes and standards.) 



Sheep's wool (on skin) used for black-board rubbers. 



Hair of deer and antelope (on skin) used by Indians for hair- 

 brushes. 



Ox-hair from the inside of cows' ears used for striping and 

 lettering brushes. 



d. Hair used in other manufactures : 



Bristles used in shoemakers' waxed ends. 



Bristles used in anatomical instruments. 



Hair and bristles used in artificial flies. (See under B, 15.) 



Hair of cattle used in strengthening- mortar and plaster. 



e. Hair used for stuffing : 



Horse-hair, straight and curled, used for mattresses and 

 cushions. 



Refuse hair of beaver and musquash, cut from felting-hair, 

 used for cushions. 



(Down of rabbits used for cushions.) 

 /. Wool used as a medium for pigments : 



Wool flocking used in the manufacture of wall-paper, col- 

 ored felts, and rubber-cloth. 

 g. Chemical products : 



Refuse human and other hair used in manufacture of prus- 

 siate of potash, with specimens of manufactured product. 



22. QUILLS. 



a. Quids of mammals : 



Quills of American Ledge-hog used by Indians in embroider- 

 ing. 



