Flesh Collection (page 2)

Diatryma steini skull
Specimen of a Diatryma steini skull found in South Elk Creek, Bighorn basin, Wyoming, USA. Lower Eocene, 55-50 million years old

Boulengerula taitanus, taita caecilian tooth
Tooth of the young specialized for peeling mothers skin

Loxodonta africana, African elephant carcass
African elephant viscera, approximately 3-4 days after death, showing abundance of blowfly larvae feeding on the dead tissues. Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambezi Valley, Zambia

Gallus sonneratii, grey junglefowl

Preparation of skeleton material using the larvae of Dermestes maculatus (hind or leather beetle) to eat the flesh

Vanellus miles, masked lapwing
Drawing No. 52, watercolour by George Raper (1792) from The Raper Collection

Dermestes maculatus, flesh-eating beetle
The flesh-eating beetle, also known as the hide or leather beetle. This species has been introduced to the Natural History Museum in order to strip the flesh from carcases to reveal the skeleton

Lophura swinhoii, Swinhoes pheasant
Plate 16 hand coloured lithograph by John Gould and Richard Bowdler Sharpe from John Goulds The Birds of Asia, Vol.7, (1850-83)

Kirkoestrus minutus, botfly
A mounted specimen of the botfly (Kirkoestrus minutus) found in Nwandsi, Kruger National Park. Photographed by Martin Hall

Myiasis species
A collection of adult Myiasis causing fly specimens. Myaisis is the infestation of organs or tissues of the hosting animals. Photographed by Martin Hall

Chrysolophus amherstiae, Lady Amhersts pheasant
Plate 64 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Easter Puck - the world, the flesh, and two little devils. Illustration shows a well dressed man holding a Hymn book, standing between two young women dressed as devils. Date 1913 March 12

Pale green squash with white flesh and many seeds, with plant vines growing in the background. Date between 1800 and 1860

Kourion Museum, Kourion, Cyprus: sarcophagus (flesh-eating stone) Date: 2011

Servant Guidelines
Servants, be obedient to them that are your Masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Goose Flesh Treatment
Todays beauty hint: a friction rub for goose flesh. Goose flesh on arms and elbows can be dealt with by rubbing hard with a rubber friction brush to restore circulation

The Flesh and the Spirit

Sioux Ordeal of Sun
NATIVE AMERICANS The Sioux ordeal of looking at the sun, while hanging from strips of flesh which are gradually pulled away

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Hunters feasting on horse flesh in prehistoric southern France

Ezekiel and the Bones
God said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones... and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, and the flesh came up upon them, and the breath came into them

Herakles and the Mares
The eighth labour : He tames the vicious human-flesh-eating mares of Diomedes, king of the Bitones, giving them Diomedes to eat then taking them to Eurystheus

Flesh & Bowels / Woodcut
A diagram to show the flesh and the bowels from two angles

Shortage of Flesh
- They are starting to run short of meat in Germany ( Carne means both meat and flesh )

Lycaon Becomes a Wolf
King Lycaon of Arcadia, to test Zeuss omniscience, serves him a dish of human flesh at dinner, for which he is transformed into a wolf

Water Babies. Pandora Box
And out flew all the ills that flesh is heir to from Pandoras box

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