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1850-1860
GUSN-2655
Powder horn with brown wood plug caps. Horn body carved with two standing shorebirds, possibly a swimming loon above the inscription; a domed wood cap exists on the base; string tied around the neck and tied to a screw at the base.
powder horns
carving (processes)
horn (animal material)
string (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Horn, Powder
Carved/ scr? ha? mid section: J.A. DOW./ 1856
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Dow, J. A. (Maker)
8 1/2 x 2 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.877
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