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1890
GUSN-8584
Robust form with short tail. Painted black and white; chestnut plumage. Black band on end tail.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
hunting
figure- and animal-derived motifs
gulls, sandpipers, auks, and allies
Painted
Hunting
Wood
Carved
Ruddy Turnstone
Decoy
Script in red ink on white label on bottom of bird: Ruddy Turnstone/Cape May/N.J./1890
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4 3/4 x 2.063 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.792
New Jersey (United States)
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