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provide the healthy protein the hunters and their families needed in their diet, and its soft feathers were used for stuffing pillows, mattress- es, and seats. A deer or elk could feed a large group of people, while its skin could be cured and used as leather for clothing, saddles, and shel- ter. Animals that weren’t useful in these ways were generally left un- hunted, and nothing was wasted.

Hunting has long been a part of many families’ lives, as shown in this German painting.

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