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| Grizzly bear #104 Mounted for the Buffalo Bill Natural History Museum, Cody Wyoming |
"The taxidermist must not only equal the form of a sculptor's clay model, he must also make it fit to a certain skin with exactitude. The ideal taxidermist must be a combination of sculptor and anatomist, naturalist, carpenter, blacksmith, and painter. He must have the eye of an artist, the back of a hod carrier, the touch of a wood chopper one day, and of an engraver the next." William T. Hornaday