Winnowing Oar

The Winnowing Oar is a fictional object that appears in Homer's Odyssey. In the epic, Odysseus receives a vision instructing him to take an oar from his ship and set out across the land. He was to walk until he found a "land that knows nothing of the sea", where the oar would be mistaken for a winnowing fan. This would be the point at which his journey ended.

The artist Conrad Shawcross created a piece of work entitled Winnowing Oar, based on the object. It is exhibited in the National Maritime Museum as a historic painting.