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Figure of a shorebird carved in the full round with glass bead eyes, carved crest; painted brown and white (white largely worn off) with spots of brown at the back and breast; stick-up decoy raised on a rustic dowel and birch bark stand.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Wood
Painted
Carved
Decoy
Inscription on belly of bird: CH - D199 [on each side of bird]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.865
Unknown
8 1/2 x 9 1/4 (HxW), 4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.864
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