European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine Nair � no Rutlt i Pilot Henry Tatiano holding a Capo Buffalo Skull in an anatomical Supply company s basement Laboratory. Beneath a new York Avenue Bones become Art by William r. Greer new York times a mouse strayed into Maxilla and Mandible the other Day and never left. It expired in the Middle of a Laboratory Hoar for unknown reasons and now resides in the  in he anatomical Supply company s basement Laboratory beneath Columbus Avenue in Manhattan Henry Galiano the 35-year-old owner of Maxilla and Mandible rummaged through Iho Freezer lifting out Frozen tuna tails iguanas lizards Squirrel monkeys squirrels and the Heads of bobcats flounders Gray foxes and raccoons. We scrounge everywhere he said finding the mouse and lifting it up to the Light for a look. I used to pick upload kills the highways of the United Stales Are great places to collect natural history. This is an opportunistic business " Maxilla and Mandible she terms or us. Or and lower jaw is a Bones shop since 1963, Galiano has Boen Selling skulls skeletons and other enduring portions of animal and human Anatomy around the nation by mail and special order to a lists clothing designers Interior decorators teachers and schools. Last summer the company opened a showroom on Columbus Avenue and it has begun to draw people Oil the Street. The other Day. A Middle age woman who was picking through a pile of dried bats said that she and her husband had already decorated their bedroom with skulls and Bones and she wanted a Bat or two. Turning in a Oal Osman she said i Hope these Mel natural a ills " like All of Loci specimens Encell the a Nus they Rii Vcci dead in finn no longer scavenger roadways most of the specimens houses come from Selles he knows Turtle shells irom Lurllie soup makers Cavar and Muskrat skulls from trappers fish from the Fullon so real Tish Market longhorn skulls from Colorado ranchers and More exotic species from Hunters in Alica and a specially meatpacking Plant outside Chicago in the showroom i ices very a Baboon Skull Sells Lor 1185. A la acc ool san pct liars Skeleton sails for $1,800 a human brain for $-425, a Skull for $950 and Aso. Ted vertebrae sell Lor 50 cents each they Are sold As Art. Worthy of hanging on an apartment Wau. Ralph Lauren has Bough skulls for store displays the caves in the movie clan of Iho Cave boar wore decorated with ils Bones Michael Jackson used some m his music video torture Chevy Chase accidentally broke a cat Skeleton on saturday night live recently and Joel Grey s Cape Buffalo so Ute is in Lor repairs Hie real work of the business however lakes place in a network of cellars and narrow corridors that stretches below Columbus Avenue and 82nd Street. Skulls and Bones arc piled in room after room. A door opens to the smell of formaldehyde from lizards being embalmed Alfers hang on pipes that crisscross the Low ceilings vertebrae arc tied As weights to Light cords a human Skeleton hangs irom the ceiling a visitor sees Buffalo Heads peering from dark Corners Python Bones stretched on a table in a Logan sweeping arcs horse skulls wart hog tusks Giraffe legs a Complete Black Bear and articulated rat skeletons. Five tarantulas sit pinned to cardboard drying under a fan there is no life Down Here Galiano said the other Day Asha walked a visitor through the Chambers. Except of course the men and women who work for Galiano and the Carpel beetles Maxilla and Mandible prepares Alt of the Skeie Lons and animal bodies it Sells the sturdier skulls and Bones Are boiled which removes most of the flesh then bleached in Hydrogen peroxide and ammonia and. Finally dipped n liquid floor Walor a Dull Sheen some require scraping with dental tools for smaller skulls and fragile Bones Tatiano uses his beetles. They five in three Glass aquariums Shmu Dod with garbage bags because they work Best in darkness the tanks at first appear empty but a closer look reveals thousands of Liny beetles emerging and disappearing in tunnels of Cotton bedding. On this Day they Are engaged in the two week Lask of cleaning the skeletons of to South american anteaters. Gaziano treats the specimens with fondness As he talks he casually fingers a Gray Tox Skull. He has no forma education in palaeontology just a Consu wig curiosity i grew up in Spanish a Lem and the closest thing to nature was Central Park and the museum of natural history he said. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history to show me off because i knew All the names i loved this stuff i used to dream Aboul  Gajano whose parents run a Beauty parlor worked lot the museum As a curatorial assistant. Sweeping floors and she lacking Bones from 1971 to 1978 thai was where he Learned to preserve Skeie Lons As he grew up he amassed his own collection of skulls and skeletons which eventually became so Large he opened Manila and Mandible to begin Selling and hading everybody lives in apartments he said. They buy plastic furniture manufactured Skull. A stereo from Japan a camera irom Germany. After a while you lose sight of what you Are with Bones you re in touch with something Thal s real " Alan Weinstein mounting the Backbone of an Alligator Eta Bones shop in lower Manhattan. Friday. January 16. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 13