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Description: | Carved wooden elephant toy with trunk and ears attached. One of 17 specimens illustrating the stages in making wooden cows and elephants. The technique used is one of turning a large block on a lathe to produce in cross-section the shape of the animal desired. Individual animals are then cut radically from the block and finished.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 12.3.58/15j | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | wood stage of manufactures (pastimes: toys) Family and Home | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-107126 | Go to resource |
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