These are the tools and techniques of killing other animals for bodily extraction.
The bull ring is a pain compliance device. It is pierced through the sensitive flesh of a bull’s nasal septum usually when they are around 1 year of age. It allows a human to gain control over an uncastrated adult male bovine through the coercive threat of extreme pain. This device does not merely neutralize resistance when it emerges, it diminishes the expression of resistance before it emerges.
The Museum of Human Predation does not contain precious treasures and curiosities plucked from far and wide. What lies within its collections are neither priceless rarities sought out by art collectors nor singular objects prized for their aesthetic beauty or venerated as religious or spiritual tokens. The materials in the Museum of Human Predation are the very antithesis of the precious object. They are the mundane and homely utensils of an arduous unglamorous enterprise, likely to have been mass produced out of the most economical materials available. Disconnected from their original context and function, these wares are of relatively little worth.
To the domestic predator, life is first of all a preserving agent of bodies that serve as "meat on the hoof" and "walking larders." Life is also a form of biological capital for generating additional bodily material and for reproducing itself in the form of offspring. Life is the golden thread that extends the act of predation over and beyond the life of an individual, transforming present flesh into a future stream of animal material.
Cow Nose Pliers
Stainless steel cattle nose pliers, nose tongs, with locking chain for leading cows
7.9" Length, with 13.8" chain
pssopp
2024
United States
Animal Remembrance Commission