The drawing was created in 1950 in the "Lantoro Mental Home" in Abeokuta, Nigeria. In 1982 it was exhibited together with with other drawings made in Abeokuta in 1950, in the exhibition exhibition "Hapless Heads. Paintings by crazy people from Nigeria" (Luckless Heads. Painting by de-ranged Nigerians) in Bayreuth. were shown in Bayreuth.

The leaf shows a plant and three three animals. To the left of the centre is a large plant or tree. tree is painted. This has four branches with several large colourful leaves on them. There are two animals under the tree to the left of the trunk and one bird. Around them are many individual grasses in black. black around them. All the animals are looking to the left and are painted in profile to the left. painted in profile to the left. The bird on the right has a blue body and a red head. a red head. The birds on the left-hand side of the picture are painted in in shades of green. One bird is standing and the other is lying directly behind it so that you can see it through the legs of the standing bird. can be seen through the legs of the standing animal.