ITEM NO: [07-WOOD-ANML]
DESCRIPTION: A set of three small, hand-carved and hand-painted wooden figures: one Lion, one Tiger, and one Kangaroo. Circa 1970. These figures feature articulated-style silhouettes (though rigid) and a distinctive ochre-heavy colour palette.
CONDITION: Weathered/Venerable. The set shows significant signs of its previous lifecycle. The Kangaroo features ‘wonky’ ears and a tail that has been severed/shortened. General paint loss and surface abrasions throughout, consistent with several decades of proximity to human activity.
SITE MANAGER’S NOTES: There is something deeply unsettled about the geometry of these three. They don't quite look like animals; they look like a child’s memory of animals described over a bad telephone line. Recovered from a box marked ‘DO NOT SORT,’ they feel less like toys and more like low-resolution biological replicas. The Kangaroo’s broken tail suggests it was trying to leave the shelf in a hurry.
ITEM NO: [07-WOOD-ANML]
DESCRIPTION: A set of three small, hand-carved and hand-painted wooden figures: one Lion, one Tiger, and one Kangaroo. Circa 1970. These figures feature articulated-style silhouettes (though rigid) and a distinctive ochre-heavy colour palette.
CONDITION: Weathered/Venerable. The set shows significant signs of its previous lifecycle. The Kangaroo features ‘wonky’ ears and a tail that has been severed/shortened. General paint loss and surface abrasions throughout, consistent with several decades of proximity to human activity.
SITE MANAGER’S NOTES: There is something deeply unsettled about the geometry of these three. They don't quite look like animals; they look like a child’s memory of animals described over a bad telephone line. Recovered from a box marked ‘DO NOT SORT,’ they feel less like toys and more like low-resolution biological replicas. The Kangaroo’s broken tail suggests it was trying to leave the shelf in a hurry.
