so I am a college student in art school in my senior year. I am making a wedding veil from snake molt/ sheaded snake skin. The piece talks about Greek mythology about women and their relation to the snakes. I need help sourcing snake molt for this project. I have contacted zoos and reptile houses, but many cannot give out the snake shed.
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Where do you live?
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Expanding on Don’s for further clarification, there are a number of things that would be helpful here
-Where do you live?
-How many do you need?
-What size(s) do you need? (There is a lot of difference between a hatchling corn snake shed and an adult Burm shed)
-Is it going to be a problem if there is a little dirt on them?
-Do you expect anyone that is willing to help to you to incur the costs of shipping? Or are you offering compensation?
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I have a box of skins I’ll gladly give for an art type project. Ball, blood,gtp, white lip pythons plus Dumerils boa and amazon tree boa. I save them for a lady in the Yukon. She makes pictures from them. But she hasn’t contacted me in a year or so.
Many species of captive reptile are covered by the C.I.T.E.S. convention and a permit is required to send them or any part of them to another country. Some, Dumerils boas, need permits from both sending and receiving country. Maybe even inter state or inter province. They are appendix 1. The others are app. 2. I’m in Canada. What country are you in?
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between US and France
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- Between France and USA
- As much sheds as possible!!! I am making a 3 meter veil
- ANY SIZE!!!
- its fine if they are dirty I plan to clean and rehydrated them before glazing with resin
- I can cover shipping!
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One more question, what’s your deadline?
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Maybe try and find breeders in France. If that is where you will be displaying. You don’t want to be transporting animal products across international boundaries without permits. A travel ban would be the least problem. A criminal record and possibly prison is a very real thing if caught with un permitted wildlife. You would need a permit for each individual and species.
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Even for snake sheds?
January is my deadline for getting sheds
Is that true even for species that aren’t endangered/CITES listed?
So I went digging on this one, there are specific requirements to export for artistic use to the EU. @dame-eiger according to the guidelines here in the US, you’d need to contact your country’s Ministry of Animal Health to get permission to import snake sheds. The person sending them to you, if in the US, would need to provide a “commercial document” with the appropriate information in the shipment. Information can be found here:
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/european-union-display-items-trade-shows
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If you go looking in France maybe you will get lucky and find a few Aesculapian snake skins. Elaphe longissimus. Probably an arcane binomial. They are the snake that are on the caduceus. The staff of Aesculapius.
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