Figure

About this object

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).

Physical description

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.