Rural craft
Aug 12, 2020
2 minutes
Richard Negus
The word taxidermy stems from two Greek words, the literal translation of which is ‘the arrangement of skins’. Taxidermy came into its own in the 18th century. Naturalists travelling to far-flung places on scientific expeditions needed a means of preserving the exotic wildlife they discovered, and killed, in order to astonish patrons and the public upon their return. Early efforts in pickling, stuffing and embalming failed to address
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