PREPARING SKINS 



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Fig. 5. 



are accessible through this incision, the skin on each side being turned back 

 (fig. 6). The skull is cleaned and skin reversed in the normal way and the 

 slit sewn up. With hornbills, guinea-fowl and other birds with casques or 



Fig. 6. 



special head ornamentation the process is similar except that the slit is made 

 in the throat. 



Ease skin carefully over skull and do not pull skin of neck to do so. 

 Continue until rear of cranium is exposed and skin held by strip to ears on 

 either side. 



9. Ears and eyes. The skin lines the ear-cavities and these "ear-pockets" 

 will be visible as narrow strips extending back into the ear. Slip one tip of 



