Hi all. Today I had a customer bring in a baboon skull, that he shot in africa, and had it boiled and prepared, in africa. The skull is turning a deep yellow in allot of places, and I pretty sure it was not bleached. He just got it back this past summer.
Is this yellow, grease, or what? Should I soak it in degreaser or acetone, or should I just go on and put it into peroxide and bleach it?
I have never messed with african skulls. Is this something that is common coming from there?
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I have done some resurch with the importing of animals skulls and skeletons from africa.I have spoken with the vet's that are responcable for making sure the skulls have no blood or tissue on the before they are sent to you.I was told that they ALL will be soaked or boiled down with bleach.Its the only and cheepist soluction they use.When the skulls are sent to the import vet they are just striped of meat from ly and some of them have to boil in bleach.its a restriction that they must use bleach.
When you degrease it again,it is going to be very diffacult to get that saturated goop out of the bone with out some kinda damage especially to the teeth.I would very much reccamend that you do not put it in acatone or whiten yet.soak the skull im a constint warm water,get the teeth out and the soak it in "rittle's super solvent.Keep it warm for about 2-3 weeks.Then you will have a nice skull.Im still working on a complete reedbuck skeleton that i finally got from africa.So in order to get a nice skull you have to be paicent.good luck.hope this helps
I have done several babboon skulls that were boiled in Africa, they were quite yukky :) They needed a major amount of degreasing and came out quite nicely after a bit of time. If you'd like more info, please email me.
Wolfie