Subject: Storing a stuffed animal head
In our collection of memorabilia items, we have the mounted head of a Jackalope, which has been stuffed. Our jackalope is the head of a jackrabbit that has been mounted (by a taxidermist?) onto a wooden plaque. Antlers have been affixed to the head of the rabbit and one of the antlers has come loose. It has real rabbit fur, real antlers, on a plaque made of wood. We want to store this item to protect it and, for preservation concerns, keep it separated from the other memorabilia items in the collection. For other international readers on the list, perhaps the following context may be helpful: This is from <URL:http://www.lafayette.edu/~hollidac/jackalope.html> We were wondering if anyone has any recommendations for the proper storage and preservation of such a biological artifact? Burt Altman Pepper Librarian and Archivist Claude Pepper Library 636 West Call Street Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-1123 850-644-9305 Fax: 850-644-9303 *** Conservation DistList Instance 13:5 Distributed: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 Message Id: cdl-13-5-003 ***Received on Friday, 25 June, 1999