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1880-1920
GUSN-8518
On wooden stand. Turned inset head. Wing outlined in relief. Glass eyes and long carved peg bill. Painted in shades of gray and black to suggest natural coloring. Underside drilled with a hole, has original stick. Also has hole drilled in tail to tie together with rest of "rig".
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
paint (coating)
Decoy
Faded paper label on underside: Yellow/Legs-/Conn
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
17 1/2 x 10 x 2 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.732
Connecticut (United States)
Title Decoy, Shorebird Accession Number 1991.855
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