Swimming Reindeer
| Swimming Reindeer | |
|---|---|
The 13,000-year-old Swimming Reindeer sculpture | |
| Material | Mammoth ivory |
| Size | 207 mm long |
| Created | 13,000 years ago |
| Discovered | Bruniquel, France |
| Present location | British Museum, London |
| Registration | Palart.550 |
The Swimming Reindeer is a 13,000-year-old Magdalenian sculpture of two swimming reindeer conserved in the British Museum. The sculpture was made in what is now modern-day France by an unknown sculptor who carved the artwork from the tip of a mammoth tusk. The sculpture was found in two pieces in 1866, but it was not until 1904 that Abbé Henri Breuil realised that the two pieces fit together to form a single artwork of two reindeer swimming nose-to-tail.