1915-1935
GUSN-11319
Cork and wood carved and painted decoy representing a duck. Flattened oval cork body, with carved, incised and painted wooden head, with a yellow bill, black slit eyes. It has a black stripe along the back of its head, yellow paint at its sides, and a cork body painted black. It has been scratched to show a layer of black underneath the yellow paint. Underneath, is a horizontally attached piece of wood 1" square with hole drilled into the front, presumably to hold the decoy rigging, it runs the length of the bird.
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
cork (bark)
incising
painting (coating)
Decoy
Half a jelly label with faded writing, appears to have been a number.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 1/4 x 8 1/4 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1666
Connecticut (United States)
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