Hi all

 

An unusual subject to start the week with (at least for me)…

 

A student is working through some old material and she has come across three items in the skeletal collection which have not been fully defleshed. Two have been identified as a lion or (more likely) hyena but there’s too much debris, including mud, to id them properly at the moment.

 

The other is a chamois got which has dried skin, eyelashes and its nose still attached.

We don’t have provenance for any of them.

 

We can’t display or identify the hyenas in their current state but before our conservator strips and cleans them – are there any reasons why we should consider leaving them as they are?

As the goat is stable and dry are we better off leaving the skin on, or would it be more useful to have it as a full skeletal specimen?

 

I can collate responses for the list if there is a particular interest in this topic.

 

Many thanks in advance,

 

Ali

 

Ali Wells

Curator (Natural Sciences and Human History)

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

Culture Coventry

 

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