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1900-1930
GUSN-11390
Carved and painted wooden decoy representing a duck, with a brown head, white and black painted feathers and wings. It is lightly incised in the wing area, glass eyes, and has a white bottom. Lead weights are screwed to the bottom.
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
incising
painting (coating)
Decoy
The inscription has faded completely on the half piece of jelly label.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
6 1/2 x 5 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1716
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