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Small wooden "silhouette" stick-up decoy of a shorebird (Northern Phalarope), dark brown wings and head with gray accents and black and white spotting, white underside with red marking on breast, black outline, round head but flattish body, long carved wooden beak. Propped on stick and 3/4" base.
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
hunting
Wood
Carved
Painted
Hunting
Decoy
Handwritten paper label on underside of base: ""NORTHERN/PHALAROPE"" (bird species).
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
6 1/2 x 6 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.779
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