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Miner's brown-painted wooden canary birdcage; cube form, with chamfered corner posts and bulbous finials; iron bars and handle; all on a molded platform base; suspended bird perch inside the cage with a wood and wax yellow canary perched on it.
birdcages (containers)
wrought iron (iron alloy)
carving (processes)
nailing
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Iron
Wrought
Nailed
Painted
Carved
CAGE, BIRD
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11 1/2 x 10 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1209
Title Bird Food or Water Dish Accession Number 1991.825
Title Bird Food or Water Dish Accession Number 1991.826
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