Film

Heavyweight gift from India

Polygoon-Profilti (producent)

At the Europeana

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Following a letter from the Amsterdam girl Thea de Boer to the prime minister of India asking for a male elephant, the Murugan elephant arrives in the port of Amsterdam. Under the watchful eye of children and the Indian charge d'affaires, the elephant is hoisted from the steamship Poeloe Laut.

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.