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Handmade wooden handboard
B W Hc 1929
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
This varnished wooden body surfer's handboard is decorated with a poker-work head and shoulders self portrait of a surfer smoking a cigarette. The initials BWH are in the lower left corner, with the dates 1928-29 in the lower right corner. Surf season dates from the 1929 to 1937 also appear around the portrait.
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Details
- Title: Handmade wooden handboard
- Creator: B W H
- Date: c 1929
- Location: Australia
- Type: Handboard
- Significance: This rare handboard is representative of the early designs used by bodysurfers in the first half of the 20th century. The pokerwork portrait and seasonal dating is unique and personal, and documents the use of the board.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Wood, leather
- Dimensions: 242 x 195 x 20 mm, 0.25 kg
- Credit line: ANMM Collection
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