These little Ox characters are widespread in Brazil and are made to celebrate the "bumba-meu-boi".
Size: approx 6cm by 6cm
Choose from green, white, yellow, brown or black. Price £4.50 each.
The bumba-meu-boi, (bumba-boi, boi-bumbá, etc.) is a very popular and widespread comic-dramatic dance, which tells the story of the death and resurrection of an ox. It started at the end of the 18th century in the coastal sugar plantations and cattle ranches of northeastern Brazil and from there it spread to the north and south. Its name comes from the verb bumbar, meaning to beat up or against, and the expression is chanted by the crowd as an invitation for the ox (the men under the ox costume) to charge against them.