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Historic New England
Digitized Museum Collections
Whistling Swan Decoy
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Item Information
Title:
Whistling Swan Decoy
Description:
Figure of a swan, arched neck carved in the full round, painted light gray over earlier layers of paint and possibly gesso; bill painted black; bottom weighted with six lead strips.
Creator:
Williams, John, 1859-1937
Date:
1890–1920
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
wood (plant material)
carving (processes)
painting (coating)
decoys (objects)
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
hunting
Wood
Carved
Painted
Hunting
Places:
North Carolina
Massachusetts
>
Essex (county)
>
Essex
Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.)
Extent:
23 in. x 24 in. x 10 1/4 in. (H x W x D)
Link to Item:
https://gusn.us/2588
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Place of origin:
Cedar Island (Carteret county, North Carolina)
Notes:
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
Accession #:
1991.805
Identifier:
2588
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