Here's a quick refresher on the Africa animal protocol. The animals are salted at your hunting outfitter and then sent to a local taxidermist in South Africa. We visited the taxidermist before we caught our flight home to decide how we wanted each backskin tanned and prepared. They also fix up the skull/horns which will then be sent to your taxidermist back home (in our case, Knight's in Anchorage). There is actually quite a few rules and regulations around this process. America doesn't want some rotting, bug infested skulls coming back. No meat is allowed out of Africa.
The horns will each be a part of different head mounts. We are getting the Kudu European style (just the skull and horns), the rest will be complete mounts.
Two waterbuck pillows.
An impala pillow- it's so soft!
The ottoman.
Here's another shot, without the grey one.
It's Kudu backskin on the top, and eland hide around the rest. An ottoman foot broke during the shipment, but we thought they were too high anyway so plan to put new ones on.
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