Tree
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 
Size 28 cm

 
Type Peacock on a Jakfruit tree with eight fruits

 
  The Mahlia-Kond live in the area of Orissa in the north-east of India.  From the middle of the 19th till the beginning of the 20th century nomadic blacksmiths manufactured these statues  for the Kond in cire perdue (lost wax) technique.  

                                                                                                                              The core is made out of clay.