Harry Piers: Museum Maker

Notes from Piers Accession Book:

Photograph of mounted head of Odocoileus americannus borealis, miller, Northern Virginian Deer; Red Deer; male, with abnormally wide, palmlike antlers. Also photo. of the same antlers before being mounted.
C.F. Taylor taxidermist, of Wittenburg, Colchester County. says they are the largest deer antlers he has ever seen, and he thinks they may have belonged to a deer which was in Nova Scotia before the present stock were imported; but this is not at all probable. He says he has seen quite a few sets of deer antlers which had a slight orb or pan on them, perhaps on one side toward the point; but never before has he seen them orbbed all the way. Apparently they were found with the skeleton of the animal. The skull is very thick, and Taylor says that thickness of the skull determines the age of deer and moose. Antlers will tell the first [  ] year; after that the skull tells the age. He says "it is the only way I can tell; [  ] not any certain year".

Date Accessioned: 6 March 1930 also 22 February 1930

Reference: Harry Piers number 6597  Nova Scotia Archives Photograph Collection Sports: Deer Hunting (2)