On Sep 14, 1:24 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
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I'll believe it when I see something like the article I clipped from _Boy's
Life_, around 1958 or so, about how to make a 'coon-skin cap. It even
contained patterns for cutting up the 'coon.
Ed Huntress

Couldn't find a racoon so I skinned a porcupine, then a skunk. Neither
one worked out very well...

jw