Art teachers tend to collect things for still life drawing. An experienced art teacher collects some really unusual things. Mickie Smeltzer brought in a cow skull into the classroom for me back in the 1980's. It smelled a little and as time went by the teeth did fall out or the students removed them. I can remember the expression on his face as he handed it to me. You would have thought he was handing to me a treasure chest or his Olympic medal. For an art teacher it was a prized piece and I had hit the big time with not a human skeleton or stuffed birds but a cow skull. It now hangs in my shed. I bet every high school student that I ever had would be able to tell you about drawing the cow skull or even doing paintings of the cow skull.
2 comments:
This is very interesting and remind me the real skeleton I see in the lab of my school then and we even scare to pass that place. The cow's horn look amazing!
A neat old treasure!
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