Smithsonian Institution

Whirligig with Two Figures on a Weathervane

ca. 1900

Type: Sculpture; Folk Art
Medium: carved and painted wood with iron
Dimensions: 31 1/4 x 31 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. (79.4 x 81.0 x 6.3 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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