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Head of decoy carved in the full round, painted white with a yellow bill and black eye; holes at front and back where head was nailed to body.
decoys
fragments
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
hunting
decoys
Painted
Hunting
Wood
Decoy
Pencil inscriptions on neck and base: (on base:) ""GULL / HEAD / CHATHAM"" (on neck:) ""WITH'S / - - - [three other undecipherable words]"".
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Probably Weeks, William Jones, 1821-1897 (Maker)
Yaphank, New York, United States
7 1/2 x 4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.283
Massachusetts (United States)
Title Herring Gull Decoy Head Accession Number 1991.284
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