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of Archie the Mammoth
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Tom Foster
Staff Reporter
There was a time when a great hairy beast walked
this land. Larger than a cow, a buffalo or even an offen
sive lineman, the mammoth ambled about die prairie, its
powerful trunk and tusks leading the way.
This fall, the mammoth
standing on a 5-foot-8-inch concrete base.
Estes said Archie’s ancestors lived approximately 1
30,000 to 70,000 years ago. Like most grassland mam
mals, they often ran in herds with one bull and a number
of females and youngsters.
“It’s hard to know the numbers of them,” Estes said,
“but they were incredibly abundant across Nebraska.**
Evidence of those mammals can be found almost
anywhere, he said.
will return, making his cc-:- It you dig a hole in
home in front of Morrill Nebraska, there’s a fairly
Hall on the University of / think (Avchie) Will DC good chance you’ll find
Nebraska-Lincoln campus. ? fossil mammoth remains,”
On Tuesday, a crowd of Standing in front OJ the museum he said
at least 100 people , j r , Suggesting there are
watched as ground was On trie JlVSt day OJ ClaSS remains literally under the
broken for a newly-land- „ university, Estes said dig
scaped plaza that will trllS Jail, gers found two skeletons
become die foundation for when they built the UNL
a life-size bronze mam- JAMES ESTES Health Science Center,
moth sculpture named NU State Museum director That makes Archie an espe
Archie. __ ciallv aDorooriate addition
James Estes, director of
the University of Nebraska State Museum, said if
weather permitted, he expected the project to finish
quickly.
“I think (Archie) will be standing in front of the
museum on die first day of class this fall,” he said.
The statue, which is already complete and waiting in
Cody, Wyo., to be shipped when the plaza is complete,
was created by Fred Hoppe of Malcolm. Hoppe, a
bronze-worker and taxidermist, created Archie based on
observations of modern elephants and mammoth
remains
Archie’s head is back and his trunk thrust high,
trumpeting, Estes said. He stands 20 feet tall at die
shoulder and 25 feet at the peak of his tusks. He’ll be
to the museum, he said.
In addition to general landscape improvements, two
stone benches and several granite markers with donors’
inscriptions will complete the plaza.
UNL Chancellor James Moeser said the plaza would
provide “an inviting front porch to Nebraska’s past.”
Estes said the $250,000 project was funded entirely
by donations, some from the sale of 100 miniature
Archie sculptures. Also, Tuesday’s ceremony honored
the Tanner family, who made a large donation. Lloyd
Tanner was a long-time employee and curator of the
museum, and the plaza will bear his name.
Also bearing his name will be the Lloyd Tanner
Lecture Series, which is still in the planning phase,
Estes said.
“It’s all part of what we’re calling the year of the
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