Malayan tapir on a stamp - one cent stamp from the British Protectorate, State of North Borneo. It's not clear, but tapirs may never have lived on the island of Borneo.
A Malayan tapir on a 1 rp stamp from the Republic of Indonesia. Tapirs live on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
A Malayan or Malay tapir (Tapirus indicus) on a 2-baht stamp from Thailand. I love the colors on the stamp. It's a nice rendition of the tapirs, too.
This is a "tiger tapir" version of a bean-bag Malayan tapir made by a company in Hungary called BEBE. One of their main distribution offices is in Germany. We had these in our online gift shop for awhile (http://www.tapirback.com/tapirgal/gifts/friends/tapirs.htm). Our name for the tapir was Bela. We sold more in the traditional black and white colors, but the tiger was a fun novelty
I took this photo of a Chinese bronze sculpture of a tapir at the British Museum in London about 1969. My mind is playing tricks on me as I write this, and I almost think it was the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine Art. It was one of those two museums for sure, and it was clearly labelled as a tapir. ~ Sheryl Todd
I took this photo of a Chinese bronze sculpture of a tapir at the British Museum in London about 1969. My mind is playing tricks on me as I write this, and I almost think it was the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine Art. It was one of those two museums for sure, and it was clearly labelled as a tapir. If you enlarge this picture you can just read the card. ~ Sheryl Todd
Kate got this tapir for me on eBay. It doesn't look much like a tapir, but it does look like a tapir sculpture from the British museum and one in a book from the Berlin Museum (the original art was destroyed in WWII). You can see the photo in this album. This replica was made for a man in California from a third picture in a book (not the two mentioned). It's very heavy. I think it must be how the ancient Chinese depicted tapirs. It stands about 3 1/2 inches high at the back. Photo by Sheryl Todd, April 2002.
Hub City mystery tapir sculpture: http://tapirgallery.blogspot.com/2009/04/chiloquin-oregons-hub-city-chrome.html
