Wooden carved and painted "confidence" decoy with flat body, dark gray on sides; light green below and on neck; yellow bill.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
heron
Wood
Painted
Carved
Heron
Decoy
Script with fountain pen on two white jelly labels at bottom of base: B.K./Little green/heron
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
38 3/8 x 2 3/5 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.440
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