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1890-1910
GUSN-2654
Wooden carved and painted relief of a bird's head representing a lazy-billed curlew, with glass eye and long curved bill made from two pieces of wood; it has a speckled head.
carvings (visual works)
carving (processes)
glass (material)
oil paint (paint)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Oil Paint
Wood
Glass
Painted
Carved
Carving
In black paint on the back of the carving: Crowell [underlined]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Crowell, A. Elmer (Carver)
Rushford, Edward (Vendor)
East Harwich, MA, USA
1 2/5 x 9/10 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.876
Massachusetts (United States)
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