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Monday, 11 - Saturday, 16 August 2025
Vintage Carved Miro Wood Hammer Head Shark. Pitcairn Islands. Made By Christie Warren
Current Bid $50 (10 bids, reserve met)
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Lot Details
L 240 x W 210mm Pitcairn Island became known as the location chosen by mutineers from "The Bounty" in 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher Christian seized control of the ship from their captain, William Bligh, and set him and eighteen loyalists adrift in the ship's open launch. Bligh successfully navigated more than 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) in the launch to reach safety. Today only about 60 men, women and children remain on Pitcairn and they are 7th, and 8th generation descendants of the mutineers and Christian is still an island family name. The community runs on a fragile economy, subsidised by making carvings of flying fish from miro wood, harvested on the coral atoll of Henderson Island, one of three other islands belonging to the Pitcairn group.
