Wooden toy in the shape of a bullock on wheels. The four wheels have thin square sheets of metal as hubs, which rattle when the cow is pushed, possibly to simulate the sound of stirrups. The wood carving is a very stylised impression of a bullock, with angular horns, a rounded nose and a triangular hump in the arch of the back. The wood is painted orange in patches across the object.
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