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Re: RE: skull cleaning

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From: Sue Stewart (Sue_Stewart_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 14:11:28 PDT

Museum preparation involves boiling the bones until all flesh, etc is
gone. I had a student who froze all his specimens first - removed a lot
of the debris while frozen and then did the boiling out process. I can
tell you from experience that leaving bones out through a Wyoming winter
will do all this for you.

Sue E. Stewart
Sumner High School 

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