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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Group of orang-utans in the American Museum. Collectyd and mounted in 1880 by W. T. Horna- •day. This was the first large mammal group in the American Museum (Manikin of excelsior and tow) This cut reproduced from a wood engraving in Harper's Weekly, is a reminder of the time when half tones were unknown hope no one will take offense at being called a taxidermist. As there are so-called sculp- tors, who are mere makers of figures, and will be that, and that only, to the end of their days, so there are taxidermists, men like Akeley, Clark and Blaschke, who are sculptors in every sense of the word. And in some ways their task is more difficult than that of the sculp- tor who deals only with plastic clay, for the taxidermist has not merely to prepare his model, but to fit over it a more or less unyielding hide, a hide that does not conceal the defects of the model but has defects of its own to be hidden. Probably no one who has had actual experi-

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