Monday, December 8, 2014

I have been working on this elk forever - he came from a friend of mine who hunts for meat but thought it would be cool to have a European mount of one of his elk since I do them.  I'm very picky about why people hunt as I'm not a fan of trophy hunting.  However, I think hunting for meat is more humane than buying factory farmed meat, so I have no problems working with hunters who eat the animals they kill.

General shots of the skull:







Lower jaw, atlas vertebra, half of the axis vertebra, and larynx bone





Then this is a bit of taxidermy porn - if you are ever going to pay A LOT of money for a skull ask for these two shots - it will tell you how skilled the person who preserved the skull is.  The nasal bones and sinuses are extremely delicate and hard to preserve:

Nasal bones:



Rear sinuses:


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