African elephant in bronze : what Carl Akeley, the American, achieved for us

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Moerdyk, Gerard

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Gerard Moerdyk [Moerdijk] pays tribute to American sculptor and taxidermist Dr. Carl Akeley, who is establishing the African Hall at the Museum of Natural History in New York, where African fauna will be exhibited. Photographs of two of his bronze castings of elephants.

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Elephants, African fauna, Sculpture, Taxidermist, Sculptor, Akeley, Carl, Johnson, Martin, Natural History Museum, New York, African Hall, Johannesburg Railway Station, Bronze castings

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