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I digress to Akeley because he came up with what is still a widely used construction process called “shotcrete,” which involves spraying concrete onto armatures of rebar and metal mesh, then carving or troweling the wet concrete by hand.

Gang’s canyon is made of Akeley’s shotcrete.

Akeley killed, brought back and mounted the gorillas in the diorama.

I was once inside the famous gorilla diorama, which reproduces a landscape in Central Africa where the naturalist and inventor Carl Akeley, the “father of modern taxidermy,” is buried.

For now, the exhibition, with photographs as large as 54 inches by 96 inches, will be housed in the museum’s Akeley Gallery and the adjacent East Galleria.