While living in Polynesia, the famous French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903) hunted feral pigs with his Winchester rifle. Thor Heyerdahl located it during the 1930's. When a French colonial bureaucrat came to confiscate the rusty rifle, Heyerdahl removed the walnut stock, with its rare and very valuable Gauguin wood carving. It is now in the collection of the Kon-Tiki museum in Oslo, Norway. (Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva, 1974, pp. 168-169)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin
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