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1890-1920
GUSN-11391
Carved and painted wooden decoy representing a blue-winged teal duck, with black painted body and blue wing tips framed in white lines. The head, carved flat (unlike the round body) is mottled black and green with yello eyes and incised black bill. The tail incorporates a knot hole and is thus oddly shaped. The bottom is painted brown and has lead weights of small [illeg.?] attached.
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
incising
painting (coating)
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 1/2 x 4 3/4 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1717
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