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1890-1910
GUSN-2583
"Stick-up" decoy of a shorebird (snipe), carved and painted wood, flat in shape, V-tail, carved eye, round wooden beak (2"); painted mostly black except for underside strip, from beak to tail, of black-on-white speckled horizontal lines (no base).
decoys
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
hunting
Wood
Carved
Painted
Hunting
Decoy
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9 1/2 x 8 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.777
Connecticut (United States)
Title Accession Number
Title Stick-up decoy Accession Number 1991.783
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