Figure
MOA: University of British Columbia
3192/5
Small iron figure. Creature has the head of a cow and body of a human, with long curving horns, ears at back of head, and a long, wide snout. Stipes in yellow blue and red are painted down the face from top of head to nose. Attached to the thick neck is a wide, white collar with red and blue stripes. The body is very thin, painted white with blue and red dots, a tail with a yellow tip protruding from the rump. The hands each grasp a long pole anchored on the square stand at bottom.
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Narrative
Given to the donor as gifts when she was working in France in the late 1960s, for the French Government (Union Nationale des Maisons Familiales Rurales d'Education et d'Orientation).
- Type of Item figure
- Culture Senegalese
- Material iron metal, paint
- Measurements height 13.5 cm, width 5.2 cm, depth 5.0 cm (overall)
- Previous Owner Michelle Charbonnier
- Received from Michelle Charbonnier
- Made in Senegal
- Creation Date before 1970
- Ownership Date before August 10, 2016
- Acquisition Date on August 10, 2016
- Item Classes metalwork
- Condition good
- Accession Number 3192/000