Elephantast #5 is from a series of elephant graphics created through surrealist text automatism to an ai picture generator.Elephants were created upon awareness of the extinction wave and per se the elephant is a symbol for the archetypal drum maker instinct ( a def by Martin Luther King). Elephant Skin Drum [37,000 years ago]. The earliest known drum was 30,000 years old when man used animal hide stretched to create sound. The first discovered is from an elephant skin used since it was preserved from scavenging in Antarctica's ice age.