a clay pig with slot for coins

This is a childhood treasure given to me by my mother's distant cousin (their grandmothers were cousins--that's really far back).

I have no clue about his name, but he was a botanist who discovered a new grass species in . . . Peru perhaps? It was later named after him.

He bought this pig in South America and passed it along to me the one and only time I met him, when I was about 8 years old. I was very impressed to be given something from a foreign country.

Blue Prismacolor pencil on thin sketch paper.

pig bank

I was given this as a child by a cousin of my Mother. He'd bought it in South America when he was there looking for new species of grasses. He found one and it was named after him.

I have no clue now what his name was, but I was thrilled he gave me this little bank.

W/c on 140# Arches.