Papier mache model of the stomach of a rodent made in the Auzoux factory in Normandy, France. The Smithsonian bought it in 1895, probably paying $7.50 (duty free).
Ref: James W. Queen & Co. Catalogue of Anatomical Models, Charts and Osteological Preparations (Philadelphia, 1886), p. 14.
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