Joys of the Flesh
James Wood unpacks antlers and heads from a box delivered to the shop by UPS.
Wood skins a deer head while speaking to a customer on the phone.
Wood carefully separates deer muscle from the skin, so as to create the perfect mount.
A skinned squirrel rests on the skinning table inside the shop.
Wood aligns antlers onto the deer mount before securing them in place.
Ronnie Janis, 82, perfects a deer mount at Tony's Artistic Taxidermy in Hawthorne.
Wood pulls the skin tight over the mount before gluing down.
Sadie sits on her "bed" inside the shop.
Wood arranged supplies and various deer parts on his table inside the shop.