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Carved and painted duck with feet fastened to a board. Painted black and white with gold eyes and feet. Head with square insert.
decoys
carving (processes)
wood (plant material)
painting (coating)
hunting
figure- and animal-derived motifs
ducks (birds)
Wood
Carved
Painted
Duck
Hunting
Merganser
Golden Eye
Decoy
Script in ballpoint on jelly label on base, reverse, left: Golden eye/by George/Huey Maine
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Huey, George (Carver)
Cogger, Henry (Vendor)
ME, USA
8.188 x 13 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.731
Maine (United States)
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