Guide to Taxidermy by Charles K. Reed

Author:Charles K. Reed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

If your specimen were any horned animal, you would have had to also make a cut down the back of the neck in order to get the skin off over the horns; in the case of a moose or elk it would also be necessary to continue this cut down over the back side of the fore shoulder to meet the cut on the breast. Thus you will see that a horned animal requires yards more sewing to get the skin on the manikin, than does the pointer that we illustrate. Finish up the head by taking the nostrils and lips into place and pinning them; make the eyelids correctly fit the eyes of the manikin, pinning the lids where necessary. Insert clay through the outside opening of the ear to model its junction with the manikin, and bend the ears to their proper shape, those of a pointer of course hanging down as is shown on next page. This figure shows the dog when finished and on a stand. Your specimen at the present stage should look just the same except for the stand. You can drive common pins into the body in any hollows to hold the skin in contact with them, and it is well to wind narrow strips of cotton cloth around the body at the hip and shoulder joints to keep the skin in the proper position during drying; of course this does not apply to any long-haired animals, for the strips would make ridges that could never be effaced.

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