Why would someone create or own the mounted skin of a dead animal?
That's the question Dave Madden explores in "The Authentic Animal".
He begins with the life story of Carl Akeley, father of modern
taxidermy, who started by stuffing a canary and ended with creating
the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at The American Museum of
Natural History. To get a first-hand glimpse at this world, Madden
travels to the World Taxidermy Championships, the garage workplaces
of people who mount freeze-dried pets for bereaved owners and the
classrooms of a taxidermy academy where students stretch deer pelts
over foam bases. On his travels he looks at the forms taxidermy
takes - hunting trophies, museum dioramas, roadside novelties, pet
memorials - and considers what taxidermy has to tell us about
human-animal relationships.
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