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==Deer Mounts, or [[Portrait Busts]] in the Main Street Museum Collection:==
 
 
 
===Portraits, or Self-Portraits of Deer:===
 
 
 
*[[9 Point Whitetail Deer Portrait Bust]]
 
*[[Only Somewhat Damaged Whitetail Deer from Nebraska]] fa.1989.32.po
 
*[[Wilfred, a Whitetail Deer Mount]] fa.2001.01.du
 
*[[White Tail Deer Mount with Wood Support Fully Exposed]] fa.1989.33.po  —  Original catalog #18
 
*[[White Tail Deer Portrait Bust]] fa.1989.31.po
 
 
 
[[fa;1989;33;po  —  Original catalog #18]]:
 
*Common, or White Tail, Deer. (''Odocoileus virginianus'') Portrait bust, Fauna Specimen, unknown date, in moderately good condition. 9 points.
 
 
 
[[image:Ninepointer08.jpg|thumb|"Lovin' too, is on his mind..."]]
 
 
 
===Two Dimensional Representations:===
 
 
 
*[[Photo-litho of a Diorama of White-tail Deer]]
 
 
 
*Free-Standing Specimens
 
 
 
**[[Stunning Nine-Pointer Going Through a Barbed-Wire Fence]]
 
 
 
==Overview==
 
 
 
Deer are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae . A number of broadly similar animals from related families within the order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates) are often also called deer. Male deer of all species (except the Chinese water deer) grow and shed new antlers each year – in this they differ from permanently horned animals such as antelope – these are in the same order as deer and may bear a superficial resemblance. The Musk deer of Asia and Water Chevrotain (or Mouse Deer) of tropical African and Asian forests are not true deer and form their own families, Moschidae and Tragulidae, respectively. All other animals in Africa resembling deer are antelope.
 
 
 
==Deer Hunting==
 
 
 
==Historic Appraisal==
 
 
 
<blockquote>Upon its flesh were the first settlers of the State, to a very considerable extent, dependent for food. Indeed so eagerly was it hunted, and still so anxious were the people for its preservation, that a law for its protection...was one of  the earliest acts of our legislature. But notwithstanding all that has been done for their preservation, their numbers have been constantly diminishing within the state, till they have become exceedingly scarce, except in a few of the most unsettled and woody sections.” '''—Thompson,''' 1848</blockquote>
 
 
 
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