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1880-1910
GUSN-8656
Made from canvas sack painted to resemble diving body of a blue-wing teal "uptail" in water. Stuffed and sealed with string for weight at tied end. Remainders of brown paint and teal blue wings and outlines of busy feather pattern.
decoys
canvas
painting (coating)
sewing (process)
string (fiber product)
stuffing (upholstering technique)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
hunting
Painted
Dabbler
Hunting
String
Stuffed
Machine Sewn
Coated Canvas
Blue-Wing Teal
Decoy
Handwritten on clasped tag attached to string: Diving/Bl. wing/teal [by NFL]
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 1/2 x 4 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1992.748
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