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1875-1920
GUSN-11378
Brown painted canvas over a wooden frame and bottom. The head and neck are whittled. The canvas is nailed to the wood, and a hook is nailed into the wooden bottom with a string attached.
decoys
wood (plant material)
canvas
carving (processes)
nailing
painting (coating)
decoys
Wood
Coated Canvas
Painted
Carved
Nailed
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 3/4 x 9 2/5 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1707
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