William Harvey's tusks: the strange but true story of the largest elephant tusks ever to have come out of Kenya.(Excerpt)

Sports Afield | April 1, 2005| | Copyright

They could have been called Galogalo Kafonde's tusks, or Winston Guest's, or MacArthur's, for that matter. All three were involved with them one way or another. So, too, were Bror von Blixen and the aviatrix Beryl Markham. It doesn't really matter as all of these principal actors are now dust. The tusks were sold to the American Museum of Natural History in 1937, and at 189 and 178 pounds respectively, they are the biggest known to have come out of Kenya.

The largest confirmable African elephant tusks are in the British Museum of Natural History in London and weigh, ...

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