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Elephantoidea Collection

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Indian elephant, c. 1898

Indian elephant, c. 1898
Jung Pasha or Jung Pershad was one of four Asian elephants brought back to London Zoo by Bertie, Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) following his tour of India during 1875-76

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Woolly Mammoth

Woolly Mammoth
Illustration of a woolly mammoth in a snowy landscape

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Mammoth skeleton drawing

Mammoth skeleton drawing
Plate 10 from Memoires de L Acadamie Imperiale des Sciences, Vol 5, 1815

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Tooth from a woolly mammoth

Tooth from a woolly mammoth
Tooth from an extinct woolly mammoth, specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Homo heidelbergensis in action

Homo heidelbergensis in action
A reconstructed scene by Angus McBride showing Homo erectus killing an elephant. Homo heidelbergensis lived for about 1.5 million years and is believed to have used sophisticated tools

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Sketch of an elephant, with descriptive notes

Sketch of an elephant, with descriptive notes
Original watercolour drawings and illustrated MS relating to Indian Birds, forming one of a set of volumes from which the illustrated MS work by Tickell on Mammals, &c

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: 22, 000 - 30, 000 years old Venus figures

22, 000 - 30, 000 years old Venus figures
Left to right. a) In fired clay from Moravia. b) In mammoth ivory from France. The Willendorf Venus c) In limestone from Austria. d) In mammoth ivory from Ukraine

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Upper Palaeolithic tools 18 - 30, 000 years old

Upper Palaeolithic tools 18 - 30, 000 years old
L-R: a) Bone used to make needle blanks. b) Bone needle. c & d) Harpoon head and Barbed Point carved from antler. e & f) Two heads carved in mammoth ivory

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: George the elephant, 1935

George the elephant, 1935
Two attendants brush down the African elephant George in the Central Hall in one of several shots of Museum staff taken by Weekly Illustrated photographers for an article that appeared in February

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Mammal and Whale Gallery

Mammal and Whale Gallery
Models of an Asiatic elephant (left) and an African elephant (right), on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24) at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Loxodonta africana, African elephant

Loxodonta africana, African elephant
A close-up of an African elephant adult male bull, on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Augustus H. Bishop with elephant tusks, May 1912

Augustus H. Bishop with elephant tusks, May 1912
Augustus Bishop arrived at the Museum in 1904, aged 23, after three years training as a taxidermist

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: African elephant in Central Hall, February 1910

African elephant in Central Hall, February 1910
Photographed in 1910 just three years after his arrival, the African elephant later nicknamed George, was obtained from the taxidermists Rowland Ward Ltd

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: The Natural History Museum at Tring

The Natural History Museum at Tring
Gallery 3 at the Natural History Museum at Tring, the sister museum of the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Mastodon in Geological Gallery, December 1919

Mastodon in Geological Gallery, December 1919
The Guide Lecturer, John Henry Leonard, took this shot of two girls inspecting a primitive elephant or mastodon (Mammut americanus), in December 1919

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: George in the entrance, April 1927, the Natural History Mus

George in the entrance, April 1927, the Natural History Mus
The removal of George the African elephant from the Central Hall in April 1927 for remounting

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Engraved mammoth tusk

Engraved mammoth tusk
Mammoth tusk engraved of Grevettian age. 25, 000 - 30, 000 years ago during the Upper Palaeolithic and within the great Stone Age from Dolni Vestonice, Moravia, Czech Republic

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Model of the Ilford Mammoth

Model of the Ilford Mammoth
A model of the woolly mammoth found at Ilford, Essex, England, held by Fossil Mammals, Palaeontology

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: The comparative sizes of extinct animals

The comparative sizes of extinct animals
Printed poster, unknown author

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Pen & ink sketch, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Pen & ink sketch, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Mammoth thigh bone

Mammoth thigh bone
Fossilised thigh bone of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Siberia. About 40, 000 years old

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Upnor elephant, 1926, the Natural History Museum, London

Upnor elephant, 1926, the Natural History Museum, London
In 1911 a party of Royal Engineers cut a practice trench on Tower Hill, Upnor, Kent and disturbed several large bones

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Elephant skulls

Elephant skulls
Including Elasmotherium sibircum (giant rhinoceros). Illustration from Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupcdes, by Georges Cuvier, first published in 1812

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Elephas maximus, Asian elephant

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant
Plate 207 (310) Elephant D Aise. From Histoire Naturelle des Mammifcres, avec des figures originales, Vol. 2, 1819-42, by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Baron Georges L. C. Frederic D. Cuvier

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Ipswichian interglacial

Ipswichian interglacial
Possible scene in Trafalgar Square, London, during the Ipswichian interglacial period (135, 000-70, 000 years before present) with hyena, elephant, hippopotamus, and lion

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Sketch by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Sketch by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Dwarf elephant tooth

Dwarf elephant tooth
Tooth and jawbone of the dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon cypriotes, between 10, 000 and 800, 000 years old. This fossil tooth

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Pygmy elephant tooth

Pygmy elephant tooth shown here next to one of normal size. Discovered around 1901 by Dorothea Bate (1878 - 1951)

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: The largest mammoth tusk, 1931

The largest mammoth tusk, 1931
A mammoth tusk from Siberia, nearly 14 feet long, just presented to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, is believed to be the largest yet known. It is the gift from the Rowland Ward Trustees

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Blue Whale Hall

Blue Whale Hall
View of Blue Whale Hall, Mammal Gallery, Gallery 24, Life Galleries at The Natural History Museum, London

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Missourium theristrocaulodon, jaw bone

Missourium theristrocaulodon, jaw bone
Unearthed in 1840 on the shore of the Pomme de Terre River in Missouri by Albert Koch. The enormous skulls, jaws and bones all belonged to an extinct relative of the elephant

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Elephant; Walk Quietly

Elephant; Walk Quietly
A Natural History Museum poster with an elephant design asking visitors to walk quietly. 1968

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Hoxnian anters, bones & hand axe from Swanscombe

Hoxnian anters, bones & hand axe from Swanscombe
Part of a deer antler, fragment of elephant bone and flint hand axe all discovered at Swanscombe, Kent, south of the River Thames

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Engraved mammoth tusk

Engraved mammoth tusk
Mammoth tusk engraved of Grevettian age. 25, 000 - 30, 000 years ago during the Upper Palaeolithic and within the great Stone Age from Dolni Vestonice, Moravia, Czech Republic

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & rhinoceros

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & rhinoceros
Plate 221 from Capter 11 of Gleanings of Natural History by George Edwards (1694-1773), published 1758-1764

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Missouri Leviathan

Missouri Leviathan
Kochs Missourium. The reliquia of animal indigenous to North America exhibited in 1842 at the Egyptian Hall, London

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Mammuthus trogontherii, steppe mammoth

Mammuthus trogontherii, steppe mammoth
Cranium and tusks of this Pleistocene steppe mammoth found at Ilford, Essex, England on display at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Elephas maximus, Asiatic elephant

Elephas maximus, Asiatic elephant
An Asiatic elephant, on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Loxodonta africana, African elephant carcass

Loxodonta africana, African elephant carcass
African elephant viscera, approximately 3-4 days after death, showing abundance of blowfly larvae feeding on the dead tissues. Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambezi Valley, Zambia

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Primeval Man

Primeval Man
Plate 32 from The World before the deluge by Guilliam Louis Figuier, 1891 depicting primeval man hunting animals of the time

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Large mammal exhibition at The Natural History Museum at Tri

Large mammal exhibition at The Natural History Museum at Tri
Former exhibition at the Natural History Museum at Tring. Photographed by Colin Keates

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Womans head carved in mammoth ivory

Womans head carved in mammoth ivory
Gravettian age 25, 000 - 30, 000 years old (Upper Palaeolithic) from Dolni Vestonice, Moravia, Czech Republic

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & Loxodonta africana, Africa

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & Loxodonta africana, Africa
Asian elephant above noted as E. Indicus, African elephant below noted as E. Africanus. Plate 39, engraving from Edinburgh Journal Natural History Vol. 1, 1835-39

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: A Tropical Bathing-Place

A Tropical Bathing-Place
Plate 10 taken from The Life and Habits of Wild Animals, illustrated by designs by Joseph Wolf, London 1874

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Pleistocene Britain, Swanscombe waterhole

Pleistocene Britain, Swanscombe waterhole
Diorama of Pleistocene (1.8 million to 11, 000 years ago) waterhole in Swanscombe, Kent, Britain, with elephant, fallow deer, rhinoceros, bear, bison, and man living in open grassland. See image 405

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Mammuthus primigenius, woolly mammoth

Mammuthus primigenius, woolly mammoth

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Pleistocene hunters

Pleistocene hunters
An illustration of a hominid hunting party with mammoths and rhinosauruses uring the Pleistocene period, 1.8 million years ago - 11, 000 years ago

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Fossil collecting near Aveley, Essex

Fossil collecting near Aveley, Essex
Palaeontologists collecting the remains of a woolly mammoth and a straight-tusked elephant from a clay pit near Aveley, Essex in 1964

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, elephant foot yam

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, elephant foot yam
Plate 1110 from the Fleming Indian Drawings Collection, c. 1795-1805. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Guy Dollman with small-scale elephant model, 1927

Guy Dollman with small-scale elephant model, 1927
Captain Guy Dollman (seated), Assistant Keeper of Zoology, designed this model scene for an innovative, full-sized display in one of the bays in the Central Hall which opened in July 1927

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Elephants and cases, c. 1924

Elephants and cases, c. 1924
A photograph of the Natural History Museums Central Hall containing elephants

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Piltdown cricket bat

Piltdown cricket bat
Side view of sharpened piece of elephant thighbone, presented as a digging implement. Commonly referred to as the Piltdown cricket bat. Held at The Natural History Museum, London

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Upper Palaeolithic carvings 11 - 18, 000 years old

Upper Palaeolithic carvings 11 - 18, 000 years old
Top: Reindeer carved from the tip of a mammoth tusk from Montastruc, France. Bottom: Bone spear-thrower with reindeer carving from Laugerie Basse, France

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Baby mammoth

Baby mammoth
Found in the permafrost in 1977, this baby mammoth Dima, estimated to be 6-7 months old at the time of its death, was displayed in London in 1979

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Six million year old elephant

Six million year old elephant excavated during Paleontology field work, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Excavations, Abu Dhabi

Excavations, Abu Dhabi
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London, excavate an fossil elephant dating back six million years during an expedition to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Elephant rib

Elephant rib
An elephant rib that is approximately 6 million years old. From Paleo field trip, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Human biology

Human biology
Find out about the different kinds of memory we use, the Human biology gallery

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Zygolophodon atticus, mastodon

Zygolophodon atticus, mastodon
Front view of a skull of an extinct elephant from the Miocene of Pikermi, Greece. This fossil gave rise to the myth of the one-eyed giant, Cyclops

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Mammoth

Mammoth
Skeleton of the mammoth in the St. Petersburg Museum. from The World before the Deluge Figuier 1981. by Louis Figier

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Pleistocene hunters, wider view

Pleistocene hunters, wider view
Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago - 11, 000 years ago) hunting party with mammoths and rhinoceros

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Thames Valley in the Ipswichian Interglacial

Thames Valley in the Ipswichian Interglacial
Artists impression of the Thames Valley during the Ipswichian interglacial (135, 000 to 70, 000 years before present), with an elephant, hyaena, and hippopotami

Background imageElephantoidea Collection: Pleistocene glacial landscape

Pleistocene glacial landscape
During the Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago to 10, 000 years), ice covered much of Britain north of the Thames. Cold climate animals included the woolly mammoth (left) Mammuthus primigenius



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