[via grrlandog]:

The Grizzly Bear Chair apparently was a gift for American president Andrew Johnson in 1865 by a hunter and frontiersman named Seth Kinman. — he also made a fiddle out of the skull of his favorite mule and gave it to Abraham Lincoln.

Hobbies in the 1800s were WAY more manly.

(Source: lostateminor.com, via wnycradiolab)

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    …..a fiddle make of of the skull…
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    Created out of 1.5 bears.
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