Collection search - Deux chinchillas

Titre fondé sur la légende suivante tirée du photoreportage de l'ONF: The fluffy Chinchillas pictured above have every reason to be pampered. Once a wild rodent populating the South American Andes, the Chinchilla has since become highly-prized for the beauty and value of its thick, silky fur. Today, Chinchilla ranching is an integral part of the Canadian fur industry, through the activities of some 2,000 Canadian breeders who pay as high as $2,000 for a matched pair, feed and care for them and pamper them with daily baths of Fuller's Earth. The object: the icy- blue furs which, when put together in a single, full- length woman's coat, command prices of up to $20,000.