fbpx

Canada Goose Decoy

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1890-1930

GUSN

GUSN-2589

Description

Calling Canada Goose rough-carved in the full round, painted black and white, in two pieces (head and neck; body).

Details

Descriptive Terms

decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
hunting
Wood
Carved
Painted
Hunting
Decoy

Inscription

Paper label on base: ""B K / Little"".

Associated Building

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

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

7 x 31 x 7 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.806

Reparative Language in Collections Records

Historic New England is committed to implementing reparative language description for existing collections and creating respectful and inclusive language description for new collections. If you encounter language in Historic England's Collections Access Portal that is harmful or offensive, or you find materials that would benefit from a content warning, please contact [email protected].