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1890-1910
GUSN-8575
Stick-up type; flat shape, V tail, carved eye, round wooden stick beak (1-3/4"). Painted mostly black except for underside strip from beak to tail of black speckled horizontal lines. No base.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
hunting
figure- and animal-derived motifs
gulls, sandpipers, auks, and allies
Wood
Painted
Carved
Shorebird
Snipe
Hunting
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 1/2 x 8 x 1 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.783
Possibly Connecticut (United States)
Title Shorebird Stick-up Decoy Accession Number 1991.777
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