Smithsonian Institution

Root Rattlesnake

ca. 1930

Type: Sculpture; Folk Art
Medium: carved and painted wood with metal
Dimensions: 6 1/4 x 23 1/8 x 17 in. (15.9 x 58.7 x 43.2 cm.)
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

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