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1900-1930
GUSN-11386
A full bodied form of a Canadian goose in blasa body with carved "humped" wings and pine. The head and neck were shoe button eyes; painted in black, brown, and white.
decoys
carving (processes)
balsa (wood)
pine (wood)
painting (coating)
decoys
Balsa
Pine
Carved
Painted
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
13 x 22 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1711
Massachusetts (United States)
New Jersey (United States)
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