| 摘要 |
A cured animal foot for mounting to a plaque includes an animal foot comprised of skin, bone, and flesh, having a lower portion with digits and an upper portion which at an upper end thereof has been cut from a leg of an animal, the upper and lower portions being joined at about a 90 DEG angle at the wrist joint. The cured animal foot further includes a semi-stiff wire inserted longitudinally into the animal foot and extending into both the upper and lower portions of the animal foot. While the animal foot is still fresh, it is bent at the wrist to the desired angle and held thereat by the bent wire while the foot is cured in the bent configuration in a curing bath. The invention is carried out by providing a fresh animal foot and a semi-stiff wire, inserting the semi-stiff wire longitudinally into the foot so that the wire extends into both the upper and lower portions of the foot. The foot is then bent at the wrist to the selected angle. The semi-stiff wire maintians this selected angle between the lower and upper portions of the foot. The animal foot should then be placed into a curing bath for a sufficient period of time for the flesh and skin of the foot to cure, and thereby to help maintain the upper and lower portions of the foot at the selected angle to one another. The cured animal foot should then be removed form the bath to be dried and then mounted to a plaque.
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