"A flattie"; flattened figure of a sandpiper with carved peg bill, painted brown and white in a dot technique; a stick-up decoy raised on a wood dowell and rough rectangular wooden base.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Carved
Painted
Decoy
Indcribed in ink on a label on the back of stand: solitary sandpiper
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
6 5/8 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.859
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].