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1890-1920
GUSN-11370
Hollow carved in the form of a full-bodied duck with wings and a rounded tail are carved into the relief. An inset head with an incised bill and painted tack eyes. Painted black, while the bill is in yellow.
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
decoys
Wood
Carved
Painted
Decoy
On a paper jelly jar label on the bottom, written by NFL is: Loomer/Duck/101 .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10 3/4 x 26 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1704
Massachusetts (United States)
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