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1860-1900
GUSN-8582
Full-bodied figure of a snipe with metal tack eyes and wood bill. Painted in tan and black to suggest natural coloring. A stick-up hole at underside for dowel.
decoys
painting (coating)
papier mâché
hunting
figure- and animal-derived motifs
gulls, sandpipers, auks, and allies
Painted
Hunting
Papier Mache
Snipe
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4 x 9 1/4 x 2 1/4 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.790
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