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Duck Decoy

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1860-1900

GUSN

GUSN-2586

Description

Painted and stuffed canvas, stitched with string; long, flattish body with sharp tail, brown head with glass eyes, gray underside, whitish back with black markings (now very moldy and soiled).

Details

Descriptive Terms

decoys
canvas
painting (coating)
hunting
Coated Canvas
Stuffed
Painted
Hunting
Decoy

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

5 1/2 x 13 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.803

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