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Just as wooden sailing ships & the carved figureheads that adorned them were vanishing, American shipcarvers found a new outlet for their talents: carving thousands of cigar-store Indians & other life-size figures, such as baseball players & firemen. Ralph Sessions explores their art.Sessions, Ralph is the author of 'Shipcarvers' Art Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America', published 2005 under ISBN 9780691120812 and ISBN 0691120811.
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