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Carved and painted female green-winged teal with green wing patches, speckled blue plumage, carved wings and tail feathers; lead weight and leather strap affixed to bottom.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
hunting
Wood
Carved
Painted
Hunting
Decoy
Fountain pen script on white jelly label on bottom: ""Green-Winged/teal/Female/(Mass.)""
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4 1/4 x 9 7/8 x 3 3/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.809
Title Decoy Accession Number 1991.860
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