R.B.B.B Greatest Show on Earth Elephant Headdress. Round and concave porcelain enamel sign, backed on leather, with original leather harness straps studded with metal ornaments. Identified with the elephant?s name, ?Minnie,? on verso. Diameter 15 ??. Minnie, an Asian elephant, was born in India in 1955 and was exported to the United States in the late 1950s. She joined Ringling Brothers in 1987 and retired to a performing animals sanctuary in California in 2001, as part of a settlement between an animal welfare group and the circus, according to a 2001 news article.