Curious Expeditions have posted a Flickrset taken at the Haus der Natur in Salzburg, Austria. Included are a bunch of wonderful gaffs – certainly worth a look.
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There’s also a nice group of Papuan skull pix – something that ties back (indirectly) to a project I’m working on.
I wish I could get back down to Brooklyn on November 2 for The Secret Science Club’s third annual Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest – looks like a ton of fun.You can see some work done by last year’s winner, Takeshi Yamada, here.
That’s really quite a variation on your classic jackalope!
Isn’t it, though? There’s also a duck/fox mashup in the photo set – either a taxidermist with time on his hands or an Austrian tradition I’ve never heard of.
Oh man, I keep missing that Taxidermy Contest…and I live in Brooklyn! I picked the wrong time to live in Budapest. Thought you might be interested, I wrote about the snouters from that flickr set here:
http://curiousexpeditions.org/2007/11/102.html
Also, thanks for all the New England fall and hunting posts as of late. I really miss Maine (where I’m from originally) during the fall. You can’t even get apple cider here!
M – great snouters post! I have to confess that I think I read it minutes after you posted it. I’ve been semi-obsessively checking Curious Expeditions – the bit of downtime while you were switching hosts scared the crap out of me (“Oh, no! They can’t be gone!”). Do you know if the Haus der Natur gaffs were in response to Stumke/Steiner or Morgenstern – or is there an Austrian crazy taxidermy tradition?
There’s a report on the Carnivorous Nights contest here:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2007/11/carnivorous-nights-taxidermy-contest.html
Glad you like the recent posts – I worry that some of the hunting stuff is too obscure, but what the heck!