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Painted and carved wooden decoy representing male pintail; brown painted head, carved and painted feathers and wings of gray and white; white bottom. Incised lines for bill, wing tips and tail feather. Shoe bottom eyes, orange with black pupils. Sleeping pose.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
ducks (birds)
hunting
Carved
Wood
Painted
Hunting
Duck
Decoy
Script in ball point pen on jelly label on bottom: Probably/Delaware/(Heisner?)/Prob. Peabody Museum
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Possibly Heisner (Maker)
DE, USA
6 1/8 x 4 7/8 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.668
Delaware (United States)
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