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A pigeon carved in the full round with detailed bill, wings and tail, glass eyes, and painted in shades of gray, pink, yellow, black and white. This is a stick-up decoy with a hole in the underside mounted on a rectangular half-round stand and dowel. It could be hollow carved.
decoys
carving (processes)
glass (material)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Glass
Painted
Carved
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
11 1/2 x 15 x 4 3/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.854
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