Taxidermy 



The "Rebirth" of Bushman. Following the death of Bushman, Lincoln 

 Park Zoo's celebrated gorilla, Field Museum artists and taxidermists 

 set out to immortalize him in a lifelike restoration. In 1951, sculptor 

 Joseph B. Krstolich. and taxidermists Leon L. Walters and Frank C. 

 Wonder accomplished this with supreme skill. Krstolich (upper left) 

 sculpts the basic body frame and pose; Wonder (upper right) re- 



moves plaster cast; Walters ' (lower left) works on head; Wonder and 

 Walters (lower right) do finishing touches. No technique other than 

 Walters' own cellulose acetate method could have made the hairless 

 face, with its translucent fleshy skin, so lifelike; the gorilla 's arresting 

 expression of repose and almost arrogant indifference to his multi- 

 tude of viewers has been brilliantly captured. Z84927 Z84989 Z84949 zssoos 



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