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Figure of a pigeon carved in the full round that is highly detailed: deeply carved wing and tail; glass eyes; painted green, black, and gray with white highlights and a red bill. The underside of the tail is painted canvas glued to wood. This is a stick-up decoy which is mounted on a rustic wood base and dowel stand.
decoys
canvas
carving (processes)
glass (material)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Coated Canvas
Glass
Carved
Painted
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
9 1/4 x 16 x 4 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.853
New Jersey (United States)
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