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My mastodon, Barbara Lowell ; illustrated by Antonio Marinoni - hardback

Historical note: Charles Willson Peale was an American painter and naturalist. He establishing one of the first museums in the United States. In 1801, Peale paid a farmer in Hudson Valley, New York State for the mastodon bones found on the farmer's land and for the right to excavate the land further. A painting entitled Exhumation of the Mastodon by Charles Willson Peale shows the process involved a wheel of buckets to drain the site. "Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site" is in the National Register of Historic Places. Peale shipped the bones to Philadelphia, where he started a museum with the assembled mastodon skeleton as the star attraction. For the missing bones, Peale crafted paper mache and wooden replicas. Using this method, he reconstructed two mastodon skeletons. One was exhibited at his own museum. His sons Rembrandt and Rubens took the other on tour in England in 1802

First edition.

9781568463278

2019029593

1 volume (unpaged), color illustrations, 29 cm

on1108152923(OCoLC)1108152923