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Quote #10
He was not a dummy; he was stuffed. Like a bird, like a moose's head, like a giant bass. He was stuffed. (Elethia.6)
Elethia discovers the truth about Albert Porter's "effigy" in the window of a local restaurant where she works: it's actually Albert's stuffed corpse. It's a special kind of violence and degradation to haul a human corpse off to a taxidermist so that someone else can have a decoration for their whites-only restaurant. Uncle Albert is not only prevented from having a dignified burial, he's also become nothing more than an object or an animal, like a stuffed bear in a hunting lodge.