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September 28, 2012
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Good day!
Let me first introduce myself a little.
My name is Remi. I’m an aspiring writer. II know basically nothing about taxidermy aside from what I can get here and there on the net and what everyone can possibly know in general.
I’m currently writing a novel, in which my main character is part embalmer, part taxidermist. At one point in the novel, the character (Ed Gallant) is asked to naturalize a human body (a long friend of his father, actually, and the very man who taught him all about taxidermy).
I’m guessing that since human skin is a lot thinner than animal hide, one would have to be careful when performing such a task on a human body.
So here’s my question/challenge to you: what would be the specifics of naturalizing a human body? What would be different from an animal? What would be the best “filler” to use, considering the fragility of human skin?
Rest assured, I am NOT actually thinking of doing it (that would be severely illegal, I’m sure), but I’d like the process to make as much sense and be as believable as possible, for realism’s sake.
So there. My challenge is ON. 😉
Hello Remi, for starters, human skin is thicker than you think. I don’t know why you couldn’t remove one and tan it. I heard of a guy who mounted an African warrior in his showroom in California. A lion had killed him. Again, I HEARD about it, haven’t seen it. But because of lack of hair on human skin, I’d think you would want a solid manniquin to apply it too, not stuffed with a filler. Cast the original body, make a mold and make a foam manniquin from it. Tanning a human should be like tanning any other mammal.
I think Freeze Drying a human would be a lot easier then actually skinning and taning the skin.Molding and all the normal stuff…Just my 2 cents..DC
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