MALLARD DECOY

Dateca 1940

Artist/Maker Bert Graves (1887-1956)

MediumWood (white pine), polychromed; glass eye, lead keel weight

Dimensions7 1/8" X 16 3/4" X 5 1/2"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1975.702.3

DescriptionPainted wooden decoy of a mallard drake with separate head doweled into body; body consists of two separate pieces of wood joined horizontally just below tail. Lead keel weight attached to bottom. Original paint. Head painted black; bill greenish-yellow; body brown over breast; gray underbody; black tail; brown, black, and white over wings. Paint on top of body decoratively swirled and on gray underbody combined in chevron designs.
ProvenanceMerle H. Glick, Pekin, Ill.