@liz my grandfather was a big game hunter back in the day (circa 1930s, and onwards). I grew up in a house that had animal heads (including a bison), and other choice “souvenirs” including a rinoceros foot lamp, elephant foot stool covered in zebra hide, and a couple of huge elephant tusks casually propped in the living room. As a kid you don’t second-guess these things, but I suspect dad kept this stuff around for as long as he did because his dad died early (in the 60s) and the man is couched in a bit of mystery for us all. Easy to say these things are “bad things” but very occasionally there can be other reasons for wanting to hold on to them.