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This ceramic elephant figurine represents the Victorian craze for exotic animals and distant lands. Mass-produced and affordable, such trinkets filled American parlors and mantels as symbols of curiosity, wealth, and connection to a wider world—without ever leaving home.
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You dust it carefully each week, this smooth little elephant, turning it slightly so the afternoon light catches its glazed surface. Your neighbor commented on it just yesterday. For a moment, holding it, you imagine steamships and jungles, places you've only read about in the newspaper.
Reflect
What small object in your home makes you think of somewhere—or someone—far away?