Stick-up decoy

Item Information

Title:
Stick-up decoy
Description:
Full, rounded, solid body in one piece. Carved eyes; carved wood beak; V tail with carved definition to tail and wings. Black-painted body with characteristic white and golden- brown/yellow spots. White stripe over eye. On stick; crude, grey-painted base.
Date:
1890–1910
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
decoys (objects)
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Charadriiformes (order)
hunting
Wood
Painted
Carved
Hunting
Golden Plover
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Essex
Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.)
Extent:
11 1/4 in. x 10 1/2 in. (H x W); 1 in. (H)
Link to Item:
https://gusn.us/8577
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
Accession #:
1991.785
Identifier:
8577