@frankashwood Hey Frank ... just learned about these this past weekend at the Royal BC Museum's #SVIMS mushroom show!
Royal BC Museum to return totem pole taken from Nuxalk community in 1912
https://www.cheknews.ca/rbcm-to-return-totem-pole-taken-from-nuxalk-community-in-1912-1136972
Ok, ok. I know mammoths are not the same as mastadons. But seeing *that* word a zillion times this last week, I got to thinking about the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, BC, Canada, my old hometown. They have a HUGE (think of how Bernie says it) display of an enormous woolly mammoth there. I've walked by that particular exhibit so many times in my life, I couldn't even begin to count how many. Loved it as a little kid, love it as an old man.
https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/blog/post/092519/you-asked-how-was-woolly-mammoth-made
We recently received an interesting question from Kamloops, BC resident Katrina Harding about our iconic mammoth—affectionately known as Woolly—who greets visitors at the entrance of our Natural History gallery: “It took me a long time before it clicked for me that it obviously isn’t a real mammoth in taxidermy. But that makes me wonder: how WAS it created?” We’re so glad you asked!
Marcia Nelson Pedde
Alan Rycroft 🇨🇦
Blank Frank