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Bogus, Broken and Brain-dead Ducks

Bogus, broken and brain-dead ducks During a severe storm in January 1992, containers were swept off a container ship near the international date line. spilling some 29,000 plastic bathtub toys into the raging North Pacific. Months later, hundreds of the yellow ducks, green frogs, blue turtles and red beavers appeared on the shores of southeastern Alaska. These reports have allowed oceanographers, Curtis Ebbesmeyer and James Ingraham to trace the wind and ocean currents. `

News reports asked anyone finding a yellow plastic duck with "The First Years" on its chest is invited to write or send the ducks to Ingraham and Ebbesmeyer in Seattle. The public responded --and genuine fakes followed shortly. Bogus, the duck on the far left, arrived with "First Years" scrawled across his chest in magic marker.

Graphite on 2-ply vellum Bristol
Size: 8"h x 8" w
Published: Epic Drifts across the Sea, in press.
Owner: Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer


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