1880-1920
GUSN-8519
On wooden stand. Brown back with white spots. Small head, turned. Round insert head. Rectangular white patch on tail. Iron bill.
decoys
carving (processes)
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
Decoy
Blue ink on cut-off jelly label on bottom of base: Black-necked Stilt [Perhaps the base was once attached to another bird.]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
13 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 2 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.733
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