THE ELEPHANT MASCOT.
The most popular mascot at the moment is the elephant and all that pertains to that lord of the jungle. In the East elephants are regarded as sacred creatures, and one of the great Hindu gods takes the form of an elephant; so possibly the cult has travelled so far westward that it has created a belief in the efficacy of elephant mascots, and the woman of to-day follows the mode in preferring ivory or olephant-hair trinkets to other so-called lucky charms. Elephant-headed ivory umbrella handles are .specially popular. An ivory slavebangle, with a design of wee black elephants, is a very favourite mascot-, and the very superstitious woman may wear an ivory' bangle round which is coiled n snake of inlaid gold; while no bunch of (•harms is complete without the inevitable little carved elephant.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 4 (Supplement)
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139THE ELEPHANT MASCOT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 4 (Supplement)
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