Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves by Claire Humphrey

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Wooden Boxes Lined with the Tongues of Doves by Claire Humphrey

We dry the tongues on butcher's paper beside the stove. Once desiccated, they barely have a scent. Uncle Sholert has shown me how to arrange them like tiny shingles or scales, overlapping. We fix them in place with a glue made from horses' hooves, and then we seal the boxes with beeswax.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #216 — Jan. 5, 2017