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1910-1920
GUSN-2584
Sawn and painted wooden decoy representing a snipe; gray wings, white body with gray speckles, no eyes.
decoys
wood (plant material)
painting (coating)
sawing
hunting
Wood
Painted
Hunting
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 1/4 x 1/2 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.778
Title Snipe Stick-up Decoy Accession Number 1991.773
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