Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1917 — Taxidermists Are Sculptors, Too. [ARTICLE]

Taxidermists Are Sculptors, Too.

It is very doubtful if many of the 300,000 or more people who visit the animal exhibits of the National museum annually realize the great amount of work put on each animal In the mounting by modern taxidermists, on so-called “manikins” of re-enforced plaster, and are not, as is quite generally supposed, simply stuffed with exceisibr or sawdust The expert taxidermists employed by the museum are more in the nature of sculptors than anything else. are said to have been the in this kind of work, and at this time complete their work by constructing life-sized hollow plaster figures which are not only light and durable, but also far more realistic than those produced with sawdust and excelsior. •