Removing Horns from Their Cores. 



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Kudu and sable horns can be forced off the cores, after 

 a week or two, by putting two short poles deeply in the 

 ground, and tying the skull to one pole and a loop on the 

 horns, so as to pass a strong stick through. This is then 

 levered against the second pole, when the horn will usually 

 leave the core and come away. 



FIG. 2. 



IMPALA HEAD AND NECK, SHOWING THE WAY TO 

 TAKE HEADSKIN. 



A Cut round neck close to shoulder. 



B Cut up neck to within an inch of horns. 



C Cut round horns close as possible without injuring the 



horns. 



Note that when the entire skin is taken that the cut to get 

 out head and jaw only begins at B. See Fig. 3 for cuts to 

 take off whole skin. 



When skins are taken entire, for setting up, careful 

 measurements are made, and I give a diagram of this 

 which appeared in my " Nyasaland for the Hunter and 

 Settler/' Other diagrams are also shown from the same 



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