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Figure of a sandpiper carved in the round with split sail, carved bill, painted yellow and black eyes; stick-up bird drilled at the base, mounted on a modern rectangular wood base.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Painted
Carved
Decoy
On jelly jar label on base of base: Pr - snipes --/ from/ Conn.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
8 3/4 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.867
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