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'Plase endow the elephant with prominent tusks so that it can be taken for
a young mastodon or mammoth, too.'

This is not so easy: in the current design, the direction of the tusks is
perpendicular to the grain of the wood. This means they would almost
certainly break off very quickly if I would try to make them longer. They
can only survive by being fused to the lower part of the trunk.

I considered maing the grain of the wood run front to back, so that it is
in the correct orientation for supporting free-standing tusks. This,
owever, causes the problem that the trunk is now perpendicular to the
grain, and would become extremely fragile. (Although it would not be so
bad as the tusks, wich are thinner.) This could be solved by not making a
completely free-standing trunk, as in the current design, but one curving
back towards the front of the head, touching it before bending forward
again. (And the end would then point forward, in the same directio as the
tusks.) The separation between lower art of the trunk and head would then
have to be a driled hole.

I guess an illusion of longer tusks witthin th fraework of the current
design could be made by cutting more space between turnk and front of the
head. Together with making the tips of the tusks stick out just a few
millimeter more forward, this might be good enough.