Dendrelaphis pictus Snake Skeleton in a Frame

The Painted Bronzeback lived fast, moved through the forest canopy like a rumour, and now it lives on your wall forever.

Dendrelaphis pictus is a widespread and adaptable colubrid from Indonesia, a slender, fast-moving tree snake that in life is all speed and iridescent scale. In death, articulated and mounted in a 12x16 inch black shadow box frame, it becomes something else entirely. The full skeleton laid out in motion, a creature caught mid-move, is the kind of specimen that anchors a room. This is genuine natural history meets dark aesthetic home decor, and it belongs on the wall of anyone who has ever felt more at home in the macabre than the mainstream.

Pieces like this sit comfortably alongside gothic and industrial interior sensibilities, horror collections, and the kind of alternative Melbourne home that has strong opinions about what goes on the wall. It's a real specimen, not a resin cast, not a print.

Genuine articulated Dendrelaphis pictus snake skeleton. Mounted in a 12 inch x 16 inch black shadow box frame. Sourced from Indonesia.