Coyote tooth dentures on display at Eastern California Museum. These human dentures were made by melting celluloid toothbrush handles. In the early 1900′s a man who lost his teeth shaped melted toothbrushes to his gums, and then pressed the teeth of dead coyote into them."
Reposted from 2016 while I visit the dentist today. The photo and text are from a Tumblr site that has undergone linkrot, but I found the same information reposted at The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things.
I imagine some old duffer eating corn on the cob while a toothless coyote has to put squirrels in a blender.
ReplyDeleteToothbrush handles. The irony. The universe is a strange place.
Delete*heaves* impressed by the creator's doggedness (pun intended)
ReplyDeleteI think it's genius!
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