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Decoy

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1920-1940

GUSN

GUSN-8589

Description

Long black-painted bill, black spots and eyes.

Details

Descriptive Terms

decoys
cutting (dividing)
painting (coating)
tin (metal)
hunting
figure- and animal-derived motifs
gulls, sandpipers, auks, and allies
Hunting
Painted
Snipe
Cut
Tin
Decoy

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

4 1/4 (H) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.796.2

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