Both sides with distinguishing carved details, flat bottom signed "W R COINS."

7 1/2 x 22 x 3 in.

After retiring from a career of farming and working in a tobacco warehouse, Raymond Coins found he was bored and restless. So the Virginia-born citizen of rural North Carolina started carving stones in imitation of the Native American arrowheads, tomahawks, and other similar items.

Coins' work has been exhibited at the Sawtooth Center for Visual Design in Winston‑Salem, the Paine Webber Art Gallery in New York City, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. His carvings are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. and the American Folk Art Museum in New York.

Loss to lower tail fin, otherwise good estate condition.