Editing Stingray (section)

===Other uses===
[[File:Stingray wallets.JPG|thumb|left|Stingray wallets]]
The skin of the ray is used as an under layer for the cord or leather wrap (known as ''samegawa'' in [[Japanese Language|Japanese]]) on [[Katana|Japanese swords]] due to its hard, rough texture that keeps the braided wrap from sliding on the handle during use.<ref name="Samegawa">{{Cite web |title=The Samegawa – Parts of a Japanese Katana |url=https://www.reliks.com/functional-swords/japanese-swords/samegawa/ |access-date=2021-03-10 |website=Reliks |archive-date=2021-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226180154/https://www.reliks.com/functional-swords/japanese-swords/samegawa/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Several ethnological sections in museums,<ref>[http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/DaisyStingray/DaisyStingray.html FLMNH Ichthyology Department: Daisy Stingray] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104222906/http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/DaisyStingray/DaisyStingray.html |date=2016-01-04 }}. Flmnh.ufl.edu. Retrieved on 17 July 2012.</ref> such as the [[British Museum]], display arrowheads and spearheads made of stingray stingers, used in [[Micronesia]] and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite iucn |author=Séret, B. |author2=Couzens, G. |author3=Valenti, S.V. |year=2016 |title=''Hypanus rudis'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T161620A104133548 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T161620A104133548.en |access-date=2 November 2024}}</ref> [[Henry de Monfreid]] stated in his books that before [[World War II]], in the [[Horn of Africa]], [[whip]]s were made from the tails of big stingrays and these devices inflicted cruel cuts, so in [[Aden]], the British forbade their use on women and slaves. In former Spanish colonies, a stingray is called {{Lang|es|raya látigo}} ("whip ray").

Some stingray species are commonly seen in public [[aquarium]] exhibits and more recently in home aquaria.<ref name="ADW" /><ref name="TFH">{{Cite magazine |last=Michael |first=Scott W. |date=September 2014 |title=Rays in the Home Aquarium |url=https://www.tfhmagazine.com/articles/saltwater/rays-in-the-home-aquarium-full-article |magazine=Tropical Fish Magazine |access-date=2021-03-10 |archive-date=2021-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422143732/https://www.tfhmagazine.com/articles/saltwater/rays-in-the-home-aquarium-full-article |url-status=live }}</ref>{{clear}}