Pyramid
 


 
Size 20 cm

 
Type Pyramid with monkeys, peacocks and snakes. Damaged on one side

 
  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.  

This piece might not be from the Khond, but from another group in the tribal-belt of Orissa

                                                                                                                              The core is made out of clay.    

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