Elephant Sculpture
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Apr 2017
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Mary Jo Arnoldi
notes: label: Notes
content: Sculpture of an African elephant, It is made from recycled multicolor flip-flops which were glued together and then carved into the shape of an elephant. This sculpture was purchased at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 2014 by Mary Jo Arnoldi, NMNH Curator of African Ethnology. It was made by carvers working for the Ocean Sole company of Kenya. The recycled flipflop sculptures, sold worldwide, raise awareness of environmental issues, in particular, the effects of ocean debris such as discarded flipflops on marine animals and ecosystems. The elephant also represents efforts by the Kenyan government to protect elephants.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 May 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Washington, D.C., Kenya / United States, Africa / North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kenyan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2077518
label: USNM Number
content: E434705-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 15 cm
label: Width
content: 12 cm
label: Length
content: 25 cm