... 34 — Diagram of pike, showing skin removed on one side from lower half of body. * CHAPTER IX. SKINNING, PRESERVING, AND MOUNTING REPTILES. * CHAPTER X. DRESSING AND SOFTENING SKINS OR FURS ... skin over the head of one being stitched to that over the feet of another; but those of the great are contained in cases hollowed out of a piece of savin wood. The bodies are not bandaged, and ... Greeks and Romans, who used skins in the adornment of their persons or homes. In fact, the conversion of skins into leather must be of the highest antiquity, for, in the Leeds mummy described in...