Jakfruit Tree
 

 
Größe 36 cm

 

Typ Jakfruit tree with four fruits; on the top a peacock

 

  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.