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the art of making death hold perfectly still so you can stare back.
means The craft of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of dead animals so they look lifelike, usually for display.
from Pieced together in the early 19th century from two Greek parts: taxis, "arrangement" (the same root behind "taxonomy"), and derma, "skin." So the word means, quite literally, "the arranging of skin" — a clinical name for a strangely tender act of preservation.
- name origin
- Greek for arrangement of skin.
- no flesh
- the body's tossed; skin wraps a sculpted form.
- victorian craze
- anthropomorphic kittens once wore tiny suits.
- glass eyes
- the lifelike stare is always fake.
- rogue scene
- hobbyists now mount mice as boxing champions.
for instance
walter potter's museum — victorian taxidermist in bramber, sussex created anthropomorphic animal scenes like kittens' tea party (1880s)
imperial war museum elephant — khan, an indian war elephant preserved by rowland ward taxidermists, displayed in london since 1963