Clay stylised bovine figure painted black with two horns painted red at the tips and a protruding lump pained white at the end. [FB 05/12/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Clay stylised bovine figure painted black with two horns painted red at the tips and a protruding lump pained white at the end. [FB 05/12/2012]
Geographical reference: Ethiopia
Africa > Eastern Africa > Ethiopia; Lower Omo Valley Solbu
Person: Field collector Tamás Régi; PRM source Tamás Régi
Date / Period: Date made: Before 2009
Date collected: 2009
Acquisition information: Donated: 15/08/2012
Materials and processes: Material Clay, Material Pigment, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Painted
Dimensions: Width: max 45 mm, Length: max 93 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2012.105.2
Research and responses: The figures were puchased in Solbu in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Solbu is a Mursi settlement, deliberately set up as a place for dealing with tourists; see the donor's article 'The Art of the Weak: Tourist Encounters in East Africa, by Tamás Régi, in Tourist Studies, Vol. 13, no. 1 (2013), pp. 99-118. (Copy in RDF.) [JC 1 10 2013]

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