Henry Moore's Elephant Skull!
I had no idea Henry Moore owned an Elephant skull and had never thought about how truly massive one would have to be... but it was in the exhibition at the Lightbox in Woking, along with Moore's own drawings of it.
So here it is, front, back, sides and close up
Fascinating - thank you for the detailed closeups! Many suspect that it was elephant-type skulls (mammoths, mastodons) that were the inspiration for the tales of Cyclopes and for the ancient myths of giants. OUR eyes are located on the front of our skulls because we're predators; herbivores' eyes are located on the sides of their heads. Whoever the people were who first discovered an elephant-type skull likely would have regarded the sinus opening on the front (where the trunk went) as a single eye hole, missing the actual orbitals on the sides.
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