1910-1920
GUSN-8571
Carved and painted wooden decoy of curlew, apparently sawn from same piece of wood as 1991.774, flat, with long bill, mottled gray and black paint, and iron rod.
decoys
painting (coating)
sawing
wood (plant material)
hunting
Wood
Painted
Hunting
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11 1/4 x 1/2 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.775
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