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Wooden carved decoy representing a cormorant painted black with a yellow hooked bill and webbed feet.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
true bird
Wood
Painted
Carved
Cormorant
Decoy
With blue pen on jelly label on bottom of left foot: Cormorant/Found in/[New] York
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
13 5/8 x 5.063 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.441
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