Rendering and Articulation of a Bobcat
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC Ballroom C/D
Start Date
16-5-2013
End Date
16-5-2013
Abstract
I obtained this juvenile bobcat, gutted and de-fleshed, from Moffat Taxidermy in Spokane, Washington. For rendering, I took the bobcat to Mike Kammenga for his Dermestid beetle colony to clean tissue from the bones, then a crock-pot for about six hours and lastly into 35percent hydrogen peroxide soak to whiten bones. After, I had a near-complete skeleton missing only two ribs and both clavicles. Articulation started with the shaping of the backbone wire and positioning small pieces of ivory felt between each vertebra to account for the missing epiphyses. I placed each vertebra into correct anatomical order and glued it into place on the wire; the completed backbone was then attached to two steel support rods, glued and wired for further immobility. Then, the pelvis was glued to the sacrum, which articulates to the last lumbar vertebra. The process for the hindlimbs included articulating and gluing the leg bones, tarsals, metatarsals and phalanges. I, then, repeated the process for the forelimbs, including the forelimb bones, carpals, metacarpals, and phalanges. The ribs were glued onto the thoracic vertebrae one by one, with the final step that of gluing the cranium to the first cervical vertebra.
Recommended Citation
Sweepe, Kyleen, "Rendering and Articulation of a Bobcat" (2013). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 110.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2013/posters/110
Poster Number
1
Additional Mentoring Department
Anthropology
Rendering and Articulation of a Bobcat
SURC Ballroom C/D
I obtained this juvenile bobcat, gutted and de-fleshed, from Moffat Taxidermy in Spokane, Washington. For rendering, I took the bobcat to Mike Kammenga for his Dermestid beetle colony to clean tissue from the bones, then a crock-pot for about six hours and lastly into 35percent hydrogen peroxide soak to whiten bones. After, I had a near-complete skeleton missing only two ribs and both clavicles. Articulation started with the shaping of the backbone wire and positioning small pieces of ivory felt between each vertebra to account for the missing epiphyses. I placed each vertebra into correct anatomical order and glued it into place on the wire; the completed backbone was then attached to two steel support rods, glued and wired for further immobility. Then, the pelvis was glued to the sacrum, which articulates to the last lumbar vertebra. The process for the hindlimbs included articulating and gluing the leg bones, tarsals, metatarsals and phalanges. I, then, repeated the process for the forelimbs, including the forelimb bones, carpals, metacarpals, and phalanges. The ribs were glued onto the thoracic vertebrae one by one, with the final step that of gluing the cranium to the first cervical vertebra.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Patrick Lubinski