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1890-1920
GUSN-3386
In the form of a "preener drake", square carved in the full round with a flattened bottom. The head is carved sepatately and bent back over the body. It has painted yellow and black eyes, a black body with a large white area on the center of the back. The bill is painted grey. The unpainted underside has a drilled hole.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
Carved
DECOY
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
6.5 x 12 x 4.75 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1171
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