The center area features an original pen and ink drawing of a head study of a Bengal Tiger. The four animals depicted in the North, South, East and West sections are motifs found on ancient Indus seals from the Mohenjo-daro and Harappa cities. They represent a Zebu bull, a bison, a rhinoceros, and a unicorn. The signs above each animal are ancient Indus script which dates back to 3000 BCE. Around the rim of the platter is Devanagari Sanskrit (the most ancient form of Sanskrit), which quotes a sentence from naturalist Henry Beston in his book, "The Outtermost House" (1928), as follows:

"In a world older and more complete than ours

they move finished, gifted with

extensions of the senses we have lost or