Taxitermy Walrus at the Hornaman Museum

The walrus is not the best taxidermy job, but it's the best they could do with what they had at the time. It doesn't exhibit many of the skinfolds or wrinkles that you might see in real life walruses. So it looks quite ballooned out, yet unwrinkled. Many people who saw it back then just then went about their lives assuming walruses looked like this. They would have gone to yete the exhibition in 18 86.