Drawing

About this object

History of use

Record of jewellery design.

Cultural context

contemporary art

Physical description

Small rectangular piece of heavy paper folded and taped at side on left, contains a rounded rectangular cartouche ink drawing on transparent paper. Drawing: sitting profile bird/human facing side on right; bird head has open recurved beak, tongue; wing attached at back of neck has six feathers graduating in size from an ovoid at top of wing; humanoid arm is bent and extends upward in front of head, terminates in a claw- like hand; two circles in a vertical line on body; tail has an ovoid and three feathers; humanoid leg extends from tail and terminates in a claw-like foot; black ground; smudged curved line at top of drawing.