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MORE than sixty years ago, in his “Incidents of Travel in Central America,” Stephens directed attention to an elaborately carved “idol” at Copan, and stated that “the two ornaments at the top look like the trunks of elephants, an animal unknown in that country.”
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SMITH, G. Pre-Columbian Representations of the Elephant in America. Nature 96, 340–341 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096340c0
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