Off The Wall

[Mike Belt]

OK all you taxidermists I think I have a first for all of you. Years ago I used to got to the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis. Every time I did I'd stand flabbergasted in front of one exhibit; a shrunken head hanging in a glass box. It was about the size of a baseball and had long hair and a full mustache. I wanted that thing bad and of course I'd planned on hanging it from my rear view mirror. Anyway I was talking to my granddaughter and telling her about it. She was fascinated. She was asking about a couple of the deer heads on the wall and I told her I wasn't going to mount anymore unless I was attempting a shrunken deer head. (That's probably the only way I could get my racks to "look" bigger, lol.)

Do you think filling a skinned, fleshed cape with hot sand (further research needed) would net the shrinking results?

 

[AT Hiker]

Not exactly sure what your asking....but if you simply flesh all the red meat and dry preserved the hide with borax it will shrink up A LOT. In order for it to shrink a lot just remove the red meat and fatty membrane.


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[Mike Belt]

I guess I want it to shrink a lot??? In casual research shrunken heads shrink down to about 1/3 of the original size. Far fetched and I'll probably never attempt it but it would be a novelty on the wall with a 110" rack mounted on it.... sort along the lines of a jackalope.

 

[GOHUNT]

I doubt it. The hot sand is only going to stay hot for a short time