Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 7.0w x 5.0h; Type of Image: Animal, candid; Landscape; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Landscape
Animal, candid
Place:
Africa
Angola
Date:
November 13, 1955
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
The elephant was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by Josef J. Fénykövi and placed on display at the National Museum of Natural History in 1959. Fénykövi sent images of the elephant to Dr. Remington Kellogg, Director of the United States National Museum, in 1958 to help the United States National Museum taxidermists to reconstruct the elephant to be prepared for exhibition in the Rotunda of the Natural History Building.
Summary:
A male African bush elephant's body showing its legs and neck. The elephant was collected by Josef J. Fénykövi in the Cuando River region of southwestern Angola on November 13, 1955.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305, Box 1102, Folder Accession 208986
