Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight mask with horns hand-painted with silver and gold

hand-painted with silver and gold flowers and arrows in relief

travelled the country for a period as itinerant puppeteers

which I believe it was constructed around

and it's also pretty useful

a tribal culture based primarily in Rwanda and Burundi

Gilded Bronze Asian Rabbit Weight mask with horns hand-painted with silver and goldI'm certain that this wonderful gilded cast bronze rabbit (I believe a rabbit, but a bit of an unusual one with those large flat floppy ears) is Asian, and was probably made as a weight of some sort (it resembles some mat weights and scroll weights, and some opium weights as well). But I've searched and searched and not found another quite like it, though there are a fair number of small gilded cast bronze animals out there Japanese and Chinese, as