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you. ********** 1910 In his memoir 'Un recuerdo puro' published in 1910, Unamuno mentions a design for an elephant. He does not specifically claim it as his own design but this must surely be the implication. There is no accompanying illustration.
********** 1932 A two-part design for a paper elephant appears in Booklet 2 of 'Images a Plier', a series of 6 booklets published by Librairie Larousse in Paris in 1932. Cuts are used to create the legs, tusks and tail.
********** The Spanish Elephant - 1939 onwards This design is made from just a single sheet of paper, but is heavily and multiply cut.
********** 1944 A compound elephant made from two bird bases appears in 'Origami Shuko' by Isao Honda, which was published in 1944.
********** 1951 A design for a three-legged elephant with an open back, folded from a bird base, appears in 'Origami to Kirinuki' by Saburo Ueda, which was published by Kokkado in Tokyo, most probably in 1951. The diagrams do not show how to obtain the tusks (which would require cuts).
********** A heavily cut design for an elephant appeared in 'Origami: Folding Paper for Children' by Claude Sarasas, which was published by Kodansha in Tokyo in 1951.
********** 1958 A very simple cut elephant appears in 'Origami: Book Two' by Florence Sakade, which was published by the Charles E Tuttle Company in Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo in 1958
********** 1960 A compound design for a 'An Elephant' appears in 'All About Origami' by Isao Honda, which was published by Toto Bunka Company, Limited in Tokyo in 1960. The ears are created using a cut.
********** 1961 This cut 'Elefant' appears in 'Wir Falten' by Joachim Schönherr and Gerta Schumann, which was published by Rudolf Arnold Verlag in Leipzig in 1961.
********** 1968 This cut design appears in 'Your Book of Paperfolding' by Vanessa and Eric de Maré, which was published by Faber and Faber in London in 1968, where it was is to be a traditional Japanese design.
********** 1968 An uncut elephant made from a dollar bill, and attributed to Neal Elias, appears in 'Folding Money, Volume Two' edited by Samuel Randlett, which was published by Magic Inc of Chicago in 1968.
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