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.

In the landscape-format picture from the right edge of the sheet, a bird takes up about three quarters of the sheet. of the sheet. Here the body of the animal is on the right half of the picture and the long neck ends in a downward-facing head on the left half of the picture. left half of the picture. The head merges into a large and pointed beak beak. This points to the lower edge of the picture. The animal is standing on the right half of the picture on a painted ground, which grows up the right half of the picture grows sideways upwards. The ground appendage rises about two The tip of the animal's tail is located above the end of the ground process. is the tip of the animal's tail. Between the lower edge of the picture and the tip of the beak there are several dots lined up. These could represent grains. The bird is painted in shades of green and is composed of coloured lines running from the left to the right side of the picture from the left to the right side of the picture, which lie within a bordering line. The paper itself, on which the drawing is located, is yellowish-sand coloured yellowed. There is another drawing on the reverse of the drawing. drawing. In the centre is a folded umbrella in shades of blue. can be seen in the centre. Signed "Titus" next to it.