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Making a Beaver Hat

Fashionable Felted Fur

The Beaver Hat in 17th Century English Society

Kelly Feinstein

History Department, UC Santa Cruz

March 2006




(From left to right, images courtsey of: row 1- http://www.nps.gov/archive/acad/kids/hab3.htm, http://employees.oneonta.edu/angellkg/EBAROQUE.HTML, http://www.kellscraft.com/RomanceoftheBeaver/RomanceoftheBeaverCh04.html

row 2 - Cartoon by Ronald Searle, 1969 http://www.hbc.com/hbcheritagef/collections/art/ronaldsearle/, http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co06302001/CO_06302001_Beaver_flea.htm

row 3 - http://www.jacobsburg.org/jacobsburg_history_facts.html, http://employees.oneonta.edu/angellkg/EBAROQUE.HTML, The Making Of A Felt Hat
Excerpted From Canada's Visual History CD Volume 47 http://www.rivernen.ca/animal_b.htm)