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1880-1910
GUSN-2582
"Silhouette" decoy of shore bird (snipe?) with hole in underside for stick-up; flat S-curve body with V-tail and nail beak, painted gray body, with black wings, head and eyes, white strip underside (beak to tail).
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
hunting
Wood
Carved
Painted
Hunting
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
6 x 11 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.776
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