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Carved stylized bird-form (looks like a seal) painted black and spotted in white/grey paint and mounted on a black-painted dowel and square base with a single molded edge.
decoys
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Painted
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 1/4 x 10 x 2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.858
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