the ark modelled as a grey building with painted windows and a gable roof with a floral banded frieze, on a pontoon style board base with canted ends, the roof painted with a dove holding the olive branch, with figures of Noah, his wife, and their sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives, and filled with approximately fifty pairs of carved wood animals including camels, donkeys, wolves, giraffes, elephants, leopards, lions, deer, cats, dogs, farm animals, etc.