Flying Fish Wood Carving

wood carving

CARVINGS
Oceania, Pitcairn Islands
1940-01
wood
overall: 4 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.

Inscribed, “SOUVENIR FROM PITCAIRN ISLAND”. Likely Pacific rosewood or milo (Thespesia populnea). Gifted to R.A. Dillon February/March, 1940 (see Around the World in the YACHT YANKEE (Dillon 1943:18-21). Missing stand. Overall: 4 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.


2010.11.364

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