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hoofs available to be transmuted into combs, 

 cups, bracelets, etc. The bones, too, had their 

 uses. They were very hard and very white, and 

 many times purchasers of ivory wares were in- 

 debted to the elk for furnishing the raw material. 

 From the fat of the elk were produced excellent 

 candles.'^ 



^ 8 The monographs of both Dahms and Blasius discuss at considerable 

 length the ancient commercial uses of materials derived from the elk. 



