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1900-1920
GUSN-3387
In the form of a Canadian Goose, with an upright head, shoe button eyes, incised bill, 3 piece neck, and all painted in black, cream and white. The body is pegged in three places and raised on an ovoid "disc" like base.
decoys
carving (processes)
cedar (wood)
metal
painting (coating)
Cedar
Unidentified Metal
Painted
Carved
DECOY
Inscribed on a strip of tape on the underside is: early Joe/Lincoln/Hingham, MA. Ona paper label on the underside it reads: Goose/found in/Gloucester.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Little, Bertram K., 1899-1993 (Maker)
Brookline, MA, USA
13.5 x 22.5 x 8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1172
Massachusetts (United States)
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