Sentences with phrase «animal pelts from»

In the early years of Canada's settlement by Europeans, the voyageurs spent months, sometimes years, traversing vast distances of wilderness to buy animal pelts from distant Native trading posts.

Not exact matches

Since badger hair used in shaving brushes is harvested from various parts of the animal's pelt, the hair itself displays characteristic differences depending on precisely where on the animal the hair is procured.

According to IFTF data, the vast majority of the fur industry's pelts — upwards of 85 percent — now come from farm - raised animals.

The analysis revealed the animal to be a male wolverine whose genetic ancestry was not Californian — an assessment made by comparison with wolverine pelts from California museums.

Horse sweat is high in latherin, a protein that helps the water in sweat travel from the skin, past the animals» heavy waterproof pelt and to the air, where it can evaporate and keep them cool.

Because MRI detects energy - produced shifts in hydrogen atoms, when the «new» gene was introduced into animal cells and then «pelted» with radiofrequency waves from the MRI, it became readily visible.

Glass, a poaching authority and power behind Captain Andrew Henry's (Domhnall Gleeson, «Ex Machina») captainship over a party of poachers pelting pelts from animals in the wild lands of a recently purchased Louisiana, is one of the few survivors of an ambush led by the Arikara people, whose chief is desperate to find his abducted daughter.

These include threats from animals, weapon - brandishing bad - guys and a nasty villain (Van Pelt played by Bobby Cannavale) who is crawling with large insects (they even slither into his ear and out of his mouth).

Portrayed communing with a wolf, taking shelter with its pelt, and being born from its womb, Smith's character of Genevieve embodies the complex, symbolic relationships between humans and animals.

Facing this grotesque ensemble, a sculptural panel made from various animal pelts stands as a sort of morbid trophy.

The cover is a collage shaped like a moon made from mixed media, blankets, plastic pearls, aluminum foil, animal pelts, packaging tape, ink and other materials.

These are hand - sewn rugs made from the pelts of stuffed toy animals.