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Tuesday Treasure - Thoth's Sacred Ibis

A couple of African Sacred Ibises recently landed at QBO's downtown boutique. These hand-made bird statuettes were produced in the 1960s and 1970s for people visiting Egyptian sites such as the Pyramids and the famous Nile river, where ibises were once abundant. The real adult birds have bald heads and necks so the statuettes' heads, necks, legs and feet are bare cast metal, while the 'feathered' bodies are molded from papier mâché......