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Description: | A shot of the back of the turtle showing where the metal mount rod was removed. the bracket was taken of first but the rod would not come out so had to be sawn off.
A shot of the netting type material from the underside of the turtle before it was cleaned of by soaking in water and then removing with a scalpel
A shot showing the old metal mount that was removed
An example of the cracking of the shell on the underside of the turtle and also wow the stiching has sprung open in places
A shot showing the underside of the turtle and the coverage of the netting type material that was stuck there
A shot showing the difference between the left, uncleaned, side and right, cleaned side when it was cleaned in 2010
A shot showing the full turtle | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.naturalsciences.316261 | Go to resource |
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