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Cat's Head

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Scottish Maritime Museum, Dumbarton

Cat's Head
Cat's Head
Cat's Head
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From the clipper ship 'Cutty Sark', this is part of an anchor winching device, which has been fashioned to look like the head of a cat. The ship would have had two fittings on either side of the ship's bow, which would allow the anchor to be drawn aboard using a pair of wooden beams called the cat heads. A cat's head was a very common type of decoration.

Scottish Maritime Museum, Dumbarton

Dumbarton

Title

Cat's Head

Date

1869

Medium

wood & plaster

Measurements

H 30 x W 30 x D 15 cm

Accession number

DN-19870003

Acquisition method

gifted by Captain Bell, The Cutty Sark Society, 1987

Work type

Sculpture

Inscription description

printed on perspex, below: CATS HEAD / from the CUTTY SARK

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