Dance on the Sequoia Stump

Datec. 1875

DimensionsFramed: 22 3/8 × 30 5/16 × 3 in. (56.8 × 77 × 7.6 cm) Sight: 19 5/8 × 27 5/8 in. (49.8 × 70.2 cm)

Object numberN0289.1961

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextIn 1853, five men spent 22 days cutting down this 1,320 year old sequoia. The tree was 24 feet in diameter and just over 200 feet tall. The stump was smoothed and used as a dance floor and lecture pavillion. Later a building was erected upon it which was used as a theatre, hotel, bowling alley and newspaper office. The tree is located in the Calaveras Big Tree State Park in California.
BibliographyLouis C. Jones and Agnes Halsey, New-Found Folk Art of the Young Republic (exh. cat., Cooperstown, NY, NYSHA, 1960), p.27.

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