Anu Osva: Yakutian Cattle – 9 Potraits and Mother

2007
Two works in the picture.

Mother’s Pearls (plaster, on the wall) represents genetic information in the mitochondrial sequence T4, found in Yakutian Cattle and telling about it's uniqueness. The other work is a series of Yakutian Cattle portraits.

see:

http://anuosva.wordpress.com/yakutian-cattle-2/yakutian-cattle-%E2%80%93-exploring-expedition-to-siberia-in-the-21st-century/

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Anu Osva, 2010, 'The symbiotic human animal relationship: An artistic investigation of Yakutian cattle'.
The full article: http://www.cneas.tohoku.ac.jp/staff/takakura2/pub/NEASS11/Contents.html
in Good to eat, good to live with: Nomads and Animals in Northern Eurasia and Africa (Northeast Asian Studies Series 11) eds Florian Stammler and Hiroki Takakura, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University

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