Thursday, April 29, 2010

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.

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