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This is a flattened figure of a feeding sandpiper with a bill that is pegged through the head; it has painted eyes, has a back painted with black and white spots while the breast and underside is painted white; stick-up decoy on dowell and round black painted stand.
decoys
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Painted
Wood
Decoy
On narrow label on the underside of the stand: solitary sandpiper
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
5 x 6 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.869
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