Poplar Branch, North Carolina, circa 1930, carved and painted wood, early Sanders Foundry ballast.

Length 16 in.

From the estate of a former caretaker of the Bodie Island Lighthouse.

Wallace moved his family to Aydlett in the 1920s and bought a farm. They established a small lodge called the Wild Game Inn. He sold his market hunting rig in the early 1920s to Jospeh Knapp. Knapp founded Ducks Unlimited in 1937.

Original paint worn to bare wood in places, working repair to the neck.