Wood Terrestrial Globe, United States

A figure eight floats in the Pacific. Its job is to explain the sun.

This small terrestrial globe comes from the United States and is dated 1922, built of wood, metal and paper. Printed globes like it brought geography into classrooms, studies and parlors. The figure eight is an analemma, a chart showing where the sun stands overhead through the year. Muted green seas surround a yellow-orange South America, and dotted routes cross the water. The sphere tilts above a tapering pedestal on a stepped square base with small round feet. 9 inches high, 5.25 in diameter.

The sun has kept to the schedule.