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Decoy in the figure of a running yellow legs with carved peg bill and wing outline carved in relief painted light grey with "grained" technique to wings and breast in brown/black to simulate feathers; painted eyes; stick-up decoy raised on a wood dowell and rectangular wood base.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Carved
Painted
Decoy
two paper labels: 1. located under the bird: Running/ Yellow legs/ c1890 2. located under the stand: New Jersey/ (ref./ Peabody Mus.)
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
NJ, USA
5 1/2 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.863
New Jersey (United States)
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