How to dress an elephant

Maharaja: The Splendour of the India's Royal Courts'opens this autumn at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The exhibition features a life-size model of an elephant in procession.

To find out how to dress an elephant for a royal procession, V&A staff observed Ramu, a freelance elephant, being adorned with textiles, howdah and elephant jewelery belonging to the Maharana of Mewar.

With kind permission of the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation.

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