I take Blaze into the senior's lodge to go visit Grandma (in a town of less than 300), sure enough, there's a gentleman there that knew what Blaze was. He was an archeologist back in his day. His last dig was in 1976 deep in the Congo, and he stayed with villagers and witnessed the hunts and the lives of the basenjis in the village.
He told me about one hunt.
The basenjis chase antelope into huge nets that are strung up in the forest like barriers. The nets are handmade with ropes and vines. Some of the hunters stay near the net and hide, the majority of the hunters take the basenjis to the water hole and wait. When the antelope arrived, they release the basenjis and chase behind almost soundlessly. You can really hear the gourd bells, which are mostly around the loins. The antelope hit the net and are shot with arrows. The basenjis have to get beaten off… they get a little too excited.
He has some amazing pictures. I'm trying to borrow his album to scan, but he's not comfortable with that idea.
He loves Blaze though and he knows the african word for the breed which I can never remember or pronounce.
Basenji Sculpture
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Thought i'd share some pics of my Basenji sculpture.
We found him several years ago in Vollendam. He is made by the Sandcast company.
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Thought i'd share some pics of my Basenji sculpture.
We found him several years ago in Vollendam. He is made by the Sandcast company.Thats cool, my Kura would thinks its another dog LOL.:)
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They are beautiful look so real.
Rita Jean
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Thought i'd share some pics of my Basenji sculpture.
We found him several years ago in Vollendam. He is made by the Sandcast company.He looks very lifelike in the first picture, he is probability much less trouble that the real thing!
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I have a few Dobermann figures by the same company. The basenji one looks good too, will need to keep my eye out for it - some of the ones they do of other breeds are a bit cutesy for my liking
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Very real looking. I would get mad at it thinking it was real.
We have a dachshund, Gus, so a couple of years ago I found an antiques terracotta life size dachshund, of course we had to have so we brought it home. It is identical to Gus in size, much more compliant and will not bark, regardless as to many squirrels run by outside..Well we put this dachchund on our counter and the first week we all screamed at Gus to get off the counter..poor Gus he couldn't figure what he was doing wrong.. -
I have two of the ones shown (red one laying down)… and one very large sandicast of a Tri Head that my mentors gave me...
