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This is a carved and painted wood decoy representing a sandpiper with head down, a white underbelly, and painted a dull olive green with light spots above; it has no eyes.
decoys
carving (processes)
oil paint (paint)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Wood
Oil Paint
Carved
Painted
Decoy
In blue ball point pen on jelly labels on the bottom of the base: 1. Dowitcher Snipe 2. By Taylor/ Johnson 1863-/ 1929), Barnegat, N.J./ (enb. Peabbody Mus.)
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Perkins (Maker)
Methuen, MA, USA
6 1/2 (H) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.871
Massachusetts (United States)
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