Pelts of Cervidae are not of great importance in furriery, and they are only used for decorative purposes. |
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Today, they are raised as pets, for meat, pelts and wool, and for medical research. |
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From the early 1620s, coastal Indians supplied wampum to Dutch traders who exchanged it with inland natives for beaver pelts. |
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It can be made from a variety of pelts and hides including leather, sealskin, mink, racoon, rabbit or pigskin in hundreds of different styles. |
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The elimination of sea otters for their pelts allowed explosions of sea urchins that ate all the kelps. |
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Well Kayne's waistcoat was made out of several native Australian animals, possibly possum, wombat, kangaroo and wallaby pelts, all sewn together. |
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The Croatian currency is the kuna, apparently named after a small furry animal like a stoat or weasel, the pelts of which used to be traded. |
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He handed the Huronian Native the promised items and received the soft beaver pelts, placing them with the rest from that day. |
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The likelihood is that the pelts of the rabid foxes have been sold to furriers. |
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It had fresco brick wall sides peaking upward as if inside a tent, there were tanned pelts of animal skins as tapestries on the wall. |
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Three or four shops openly sell endangered-species pelts, one place baldly calling itself the Snow Leopard Shop. |
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The Ice Age was survived largely due to the ability to skin with fine flint scrapers and preserve pelts and hides. |
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Their big shaggy komondor sheepdogs with matted dreadlock pelts stayed close at heel. |
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The rains began to pour down in heavy pelts, in huge droplets, the cows mooing a nervous call loud over the plateau. |
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The beaver pelts were used to make felt hats for European noblemen and merchants alike. |
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As the bus pelts past scattered dwellings on a dead straight road, I'm reminded of home. |
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As the bus pelts towards Paramaribo past scattered dwellings on a dead straight road, I'm reminded of home. |
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Although demand is no longer as high, raccoon pelts may still be sold as imitation mink, otter, or seal fur. |
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As rain pelts down onto the windshield, Tommy drives slowly towards their destination. |
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He earned just enough for supplies by trapping animals and selling their pelts. |
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Wampum was prized by the Indians and used by the Europeans as currency in exchange for beaver pelts. |
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But humans also were smart enough to develop the ability to kill furry animals and use their pelts for clothing to be warmer. |
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When the first European settlers docked their ships here they weren't only enticed by beaver pelts. |
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Jay had been working as a furrier in Glasgow but he contracted a skin disease off the pelts. |
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Bengals, because they have pelts and not coats like domestic cats, shed very little, and cause less allergic reactions. |
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Denizens of coastal waters in the Pacific, sea otters were pursued for centuries for their thick, soft pelts. |
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Extremely poor prices for nutria pelts have resulted in very little trapping activity. |
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Opposite the fireplace, a bulky dark wood bed was draped in dark blue velvet covers and snowy white fur pelts, its sheets thrust to one side. |
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But manufacturers still use up to two coney rabbit pelts to make each of the new-style hats. |
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No one knows just how many wolves were killed by government scientists or by Inuit hunters who prized wolf pelts for parka trim. |
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A person who has obtained the appropriate license and permit may transport green pelts of furbearers. |
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The bulky pelts had all been sold, exchanged for silver with passing merchants who would in turn take them to a furrier. |
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Jay had been working as a furrier in Glasgow but he contracted an allergy off the pelts. |
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Chinese farmers hope to earn big profits selling fox pelts into the Russian and Chinese markets. |
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It's not just that pelts and plumes are exotic, strikingly patterned or richly textured. |
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In her brown hide robes she looked almost like a pile of animal pelts left heaped in the center of the room, but the sporadic rise and fall of her chest proved otherwise. |
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Negotiations are continuing on a deal that could see toll processing of pelts and a rationalization of the southern meat processors' fellmongering operation. |
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As fashion has readmitted fur, designers have continued to steer clear of old-fashioned pelts, preferring to woo fur virgins with fitch, wolf and coyote. |
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Normally, the glossier, smoother pelts from female bears are used for officers' bearskins, while other ranks are given hats made from the rougher pelt of the male animals. |
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The defendants used a solvent in degreasing pelts at their tannery, which was located 1.3 miles from the plaintiffs borehole from which water was extracted for domestic use. |
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Lying alone in a tiny cavern barely large enough to shelter one person, I listen as the wind rustles through the grasses and the rain pelts the sandy soil. |
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Before hitting our first night's camp, we visit a man training a magnificent eagle to hunt foxes, whose pelts are highly prized by Russians for coats and hats. |
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Indeed, meat and pelts are a resource, but rabbits also destroy crops. |
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Animal pelts have probably been exchanged in North America since the beginning of human habitation, but large-scale fur trade began only after the arrival of Europeans. |
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One night, some guests spent the night there, sleeping on reindeer pelts. |
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Their big shaggy sheepdogs with matted pelts stayed close at heel. |
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The time of year that the animal was killed has a bearing on how well the hair stays in the skin, making trapping in the winter the best time to hunt for pelts. |
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Humans continue to illegally harvest Pteronura brasiliensis for pelts. |
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The first exploration of Canada's interior was for the purpose of finding beaver pelts to satisfy the obsession with fur coats by the European elite. |
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Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige. |
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He anoints them with water, pelts them with rocks, and burns Asian bank notes inside the craniums before covering them with Mardi Gras beads and found objects. |
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Courteous traders offered skins and pelts, robes and carpets. |
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The Dutch depended on the indigenous population to capture, skin, and deliver pelts to them, especially beaver. |
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The manufacturing of fur clothing involves obtaining animal pelts where the hair is left on the animal's processed skin. |
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The town is largely reliant on farming of reindeer, hunting for pelts, and fishing. |
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The sea otter pelts they brought, soon judged to be the finest fur in the world, would spark Russian settlement in Alaska. |
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In Finland squirrel pelts were used as currency in ancient times, before the introduction of coinage. |
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Otters have been hunted for their pelts from at least the 1700s, although it may have begun well before then. |
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Seal pups are hunted for their blue and black pelts and many mothers are killed in the process, attempting to protect their young. |
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The native people of North America made much use of beaver pelts, tanning and sewing them together to make robes. |
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Kas is awakened by the furious pelts of rain hitting the tin roof, and he rolls over, pulling his sleeping wife tightly into his arms. |
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Hunters have decimated the populations of tigers, leopards, and other large cats for their valuable pelts. |
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Hair sheep are similar to the early domesticated sheep kept before woolly breeds were developed, and are raised for meat and pelts. |
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As early as 1600, French, Dutch, and English traders began exploring the New World, trading metal, glass, and cloth for local beaver pelts. |
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Wolf pelts were worth plenty of money in the late nineteenth century, and the wolfers had an easy way of killing their prey. |
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Fur is also used to refer to animal pelts which have been processed into leather with the hair still attached. |
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Known as karakul hats, they're made from lamb pelts and are traditionally worn in northern Afghanistan. |
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Settlers traded for food and animal pelts, natives for guns, ammunition and other European wares. |
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Sheep continue to be important for wool and meat today, and are also occasionally raised for pelts, as dairy animals, or as model organisms for science. |
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Their pelts are used for trimmings, scarfs, muffs, jackets and coats. |
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During the 17th century, Dutch trading posts established for the trade of pelts from the Lenape, Iroquois, and other tribes were founded in the colony of New Netherland. |
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For now the boys grew whiskers and hung fox pelts from their shoulders and the girlen all wore scarlet skirts and braided ribbons through their hair. |
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There has been a long history of otter pelts being worn around the world. |
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The chinchilla has a soft and silky coat and the demand for its fur was so high that it was nearly wiped out in the wild before farming took over as the main source of pelts. |
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