a vase and a pair of “statues” that are actually supposed to have been made from a pair of carved African elephant tusks. The vase looks like it too might have been carved from elephant ivory ...

The Elephant Monk, Kruba Dharmamuni, who used to be the Scorpion Monk and still displays a life-size statue of himself as a scorpion in his temple, wants to take me ivory shopping in Surin.