10-A District Agricultural Association 800 Main Street Tulelake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds Tulelake California 96134
Date:
1991
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1994.
Image on file.
(On plaque on upper front of base:) IN MEMORY OF/BILL WHITAKER unsigned
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Summary:
A caricature of a man with a large potato-shaped head, wearing a hat and boots and standing on a boulder. His proper right arm is extended slightly from his side, and the thumb of his proper left hand is hooked into his trouser's pocket. The base is a rock once used by Modoc Indians in the grinding of grains and acorns, and bears numerous depressions created by that grinding.
