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A stylized carving of a grouse with head up painted black and cream with black head, wings and tail tip and cream and black back and breast. This is a stick-up decoy therefore the underside is drilled with a hole and is mounted on a modern square base or square standard.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Painted
Carved
Decoy
On jelly jar label on base of base: grouse/ from Penna. [typed and added in ink:] PUFFIN?
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
7 1/2 x 9 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.862
Pennsylvania (United States)
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