Columbian Mammoths - Los Angeles, CA - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

These mammoths are in BIG trouble. The sculpture was put into the La Brea Tar Pits to imitate what it would look like thousands of years ago when Columbian Mammoths actually got stuck in the tar and died. This sculpture and waymark is for the four mammoths inside the enclosure of the pits, which are all listed under the same listing on the Smithsonian website.

TITLE: Columbian Mammoths ARTIST(S): Ball, Howard, sculptor. DATE: 1968 MEDIUM: Painted fiberglass. CONTROL NUMBER: IAS CA000225 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: More tar on the sculpture and the sculpture have seemed to be sinking.

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