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Wings with V-shape. Scratch feather design. Black spots in grey breast. Long wooden bill. Small body. Black eyes.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
hunting
figure- and animal-derived motifs
gulls, sandpipers, auks, and allies
Wood
Painted
Carved
Hunting
Lesser Yellowlegs
Decoy
Handwritten on paper label between bird feathers: FAKE [by NFL]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
10 x 7 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.786
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