COLLECTING AND PRESERVING THE SKINS. 



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SPECIAL AND EXCEPTIONAL DIRECTIONS. Apes and Monkeys. 

 If you are in the jungle, the chances are that you will have no 

 plaster Paris with which to make casts, in which case you must 

 make the sketching- 

 pencil and tape-meas- 

 ure do double duty. 

 With such a wonder- 

 ful and characteris- 

 tic form as a gorilla, 

 chimpanzee, or orang- 



utan, you cannot ^MMB^V-V^'^ n } \ 

 study it too much ^L^^^ 

 unless you study it 

 until the skin spoils. 

 Above all things, 

 study every feature 

 of the face, and also 

 its expression, so that 

 you can make a copy 

 of it two years after- 

 ward which shall be 

 both mathematically 

 and artistically cor- 

 rect. If you have 

 plaster Paris, fail not 

 to take a mould of the 

 face, and also of one 

 hand and foot, so that 

 later you can make 

 casts. The same ad- 

 vice applies to the 

 great baboons with 

 their IV;irful and won- 

 derful faces and is- 

 chial callosities, some of them gotten up with all the colors of 

 the rainbow, and far more brilliancy. Kemember that when the 

 skin dries all those colors totally disappear, and the skin turns to 

 the color of parchment. Therefore, ovit with your box of colors 

 at once, and make a color-sketch of the face. If you have skill 



FIG. 8. A Well-made Dry Deer Skin. 



