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Full, rounded, solid body in one piece. Carved eyes; carved wood beak; V tail with carved definition to tail and wings. Black-painted body with characteristic white and golden- brown/yellow spots. White stripe over eye. On stick; crude, grey-painted base.
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
gulls, sandpipers, auks, and allies
hunting
Wood
Painted
Carved
Hunting
Golden Plover
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11 1/4 x 10 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.785
Probably Massachusetts (United States)
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