A sheep sculpture, by the Gunsur Malias tribe, presents a showcase and touch of tribal metalwork and inextricable attachment to pastoral life. This has brass-on-brass model cast using a lost-wax process, an old-age technique that allows artisans to give very intricate and detailed sculpted forms in metal. Hence, one can say that this work speaks mastery and cultural symbolism. The figure shows the sheep standing in a posture that gives it a sense of stability and calm. Of the most striking features is the converging pair of horns, carefully crafted to create a feeling of dimensionality and space. The body is extensively adorned with rhomboid designs, a theme widely found in Gunsur Malias art, signifying nature, harmony with nature, and continuance with the tribe.
Geometric designs, therefore, cover the body, save for the head region, which is kept raw to highlight expression and character. Adorning it further are encircled rings on the neck of the sheep, suggesting maybe adornment or one's value as resource or symbol within the tribal context. The figure is one that has this short, curved tail that further completes the naturalistic but stylized among-animal depiction. Animals such as sheep are important to the livelihood and tradition of the Gunsur Malias, and alive to them is their representation in art as of both practical and spiritual significance . This is a brass object that is certainly not less than ornamentation but more of being turned into culture-an object that is likely to record the tribe's history through mastery in craft.