On filing osteology
The house mark is osteology. That is not a mood. It is a filing method.
A rattlesnake arrives as bone: triangular cranium, empty orbits, fangs still seated. In profile, the vertebral column with the curved ribs and the rattle. Beside it, the cabinet skulls — mammalian, ivory, filed as found. Nothing here is a living serpent. It is the specimen.
When a piece cannot be dated, we write unknown. The object is louder than the story we could invent for it.
Scout, Proprietor
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