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This is a stylized figure of a snipe carved in the full round and painted dark grey and black with a long curved bill; it has a snipe's head and a bill pointed upward; stick-up decoy having a hole drilled in the bottom and mounted on a modern rustic wood stand.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Wood
Carved
Painted
Decoy
In ink on label under the base: Snipe/ 6 decoys from/ Luther Little No./ Marshfield, Mass.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.866
Unknown
12 3/4 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.865
Massachusetts (United States)
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