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Carved and painted wooden owl with metal ears, on a metal base, detailed in brown, white, black, yellow and green paint.
metal
oil paint (paint)
varnishing
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Oil
Unidentified Metal
Varnished
SCARECROW
Incised underneath the base of the tail is: S (maker's mark?). In black magic marker, along the back of the feet is: J-636.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
14.25 x 16.25 x 5.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1164
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