Elephant
 

 
Size 15 cm

 

Type Elephant; trunk and tusks are broken

 

  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.