Flying Fish Wood Carving

wood carving

CARVINGS
Oceania, Pitcairn Islands
1940-01
wood
overall: 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 2 3/8 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). Overall: 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.


2010.11.366