Proboscidean Collection

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

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

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

Woolly Mammoth
Illustration of a woolly mammoth in a snowy landscape

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

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

Geological Gallery Natural History Museum 1892
Photograph of the Geological Gallery, with American mastodon in the foreground. July 1892. Archive ref: PH/173/243 Date: 1892

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Piltdown Mastodon tooth
Piltdown, Sussex item E.622, edge view of molar of the extinct mammal Mastodon. Held at the Natural History Museum, London

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

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

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

Fossil tooth of some extinct monstrous unknown animal from W
Plate 1 from Strata Identified by Organized Fossils by William Smith (1816-1819) (Mastodon arvernensis Croizet & Jobert from Norwich Crag, Pleistocene)

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

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

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

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

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