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Silhouette decoy on 6-3/4" iron rod and base. Snipe shorebird with yellow legs or willet species. Flat with V wings; black wings and head. Grey speckled breast. Long whittled wood beak; large tack eyes. Three holes to body; stick at center.
decoys
wood (plant material)
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
hunting
figure- and animal-derived motifs
gulls, sandpipers, auks, and allies
Wood
Painted
Shorebird
Iron
Hunting
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
12 x 10 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.780
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