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1920-1940
GUSN-8598
Male, carved in full round. Outline of wings carved in relief. Painted metal eyes. Painted dark gray with light gray and white mottled plumage. Lead weights and leather rig strap nailed to bases.
decoys
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
wood (plant material)
hunting
figure- and animal-derived motifs
ducks (birds)
Hunting
Painted
Carved
Lesser Scaup
Wood
Decoy
Typed paper label at underside: Lesser Scaup/male
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
4 5/8 x 10 x 3 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.802.2
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