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Painted Swordfish Bill
ca. 1920s Unidentified painted bone, carved and stained wood inlaid with plastic 43 5/8 x 7 1/8 x 1 5/8 in. (110.7 x 18.1 x 4.0 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson 1986.65.328 Not currently on view
Keywords
Animal - fish - swordfish
Architecture - lighthouse
Object - other - flag
Object - weapon - sword
Waterscape - boat
sculpture
folk art
animal parts - bone
plastic
wood
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