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This is a figure of a peep carved in the full round with glass eyes and a carved peg beak; it is painted in its natural shades of brown, black, cream and white; it is a stick-up decoy and has a wood dowell and rough wood stand; it has two small holes on either side of a large hole possibly for the legs.
decoys
carving (processes)
glass (material)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Decoy
On label on base of stand: PEEP/ B.K. Little
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
3 1/4 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.870
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