Mounted on a piece of birch log. Long curved black bill. Painted black with brown and black plumage.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
hunting
Wood
Painted
Carved
Hunting
Bird
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
12 x 8 x 3 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.784
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