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Carved and painted wooden decoy of a goldeneye duck. Decoy has carved black wings, painted black head with white spot, yellow eyes, and a gray bill.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
hunting
Hunting
Decoy
Capitals and script in pencil on bottom: MADE BY Capt. Ed. H./ADAMS POINT,/Durham,N.H./ /Ca[ss?]/ [Cass appears to be added to inscription; almost illegible.]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Adams, Edward Hamlin, 1860-1950 (Carver)
Durham, NH, USA
6 x 6 1/8 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.669
New Hampshire (United States)
Adams Point (Strafford county, New Hampshire) [cape]
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