Pre-Columbian Representations of the Elephant in America

Abstract

IF a note from across the sea is not so delayed as to be no longer timely, may I reply to Dr. G. Elliot Smith's remarkable communication on pre-Columbian representations of the elephant in America in NATURE of November 25? The identification of the details on Stela B at Copan as elephants is neither new nor unanswered, and the same may be said of the extension of this identification to the conventional faces with outward curving noses that decorate the buildings of northern Yucatan.