Hand Carved Suar Elephant

Description

Beautiful vintage hand carved jumping elephant trunk up with a dark finish. Hand made from suar wood in Bali, Indonesia.

Dimensions: 13″ x 4.5″ x 13.5″

**The botanical name for Suar wood is Saman Samanea. Also called Monkey Pod or Rain Tree in some countries. These trees are easy recognized by their umbrella canopy.
The tree usually reaches heights of 50 – 80 feet. It is NOT endangered, and fast growing tropical hardwood with crisscrossed interlocking grains. Which makes it not too heavy but extremely strong. People loves this wood because of its great resistant to decay and dry-wood termites.