Accession #	Identifier	Title	Type	Subject
22.04.15	1620	Art of the decoy : American bird carvings.	Publication, Book	Birds Carvings	Art of the decoy : American bird carvings. Accession #: 22.04.15 Identifier: 1620    Type: Publication, Book Subject: Birds Carvings Creator: Earnest - Adele Earnest Date: 1965 Description: Drawings by Lou Schifferl. Published by Bramhall House. Signed by the author.
89.3.12	1233	Pintail Drake	Carving, 1/4 Life-size	Birds Carvings	Pintail Drake Accession #: 89.3.12 Identifier: 1233    Type: Carving, 1/4 Life-size Subject: Birds Carvings Creator: Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Date: 1961 Description: Adult male, body held horizontal and low with tail fanned and pin arched upward ; head fully outstretched, twisted upward and to the right ; wire legs and metal webbed feet ; glass eyes ; signed "Gilley '61" on right rear side of base
20.01.018	1259	Canvasback	Carving	Birds Carvings	Canvasback Accession #: 20.01.018 Identifier: 1259    Type: Carving Subject: Birds Carvings Creator: Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983) Date: 1965 c Description: Signed "Gilley" on front of driftwood base. Artist's stamp on bottom of base.
	1565	Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Lemuel T. Ward, Nov. 8, 1965	Document, Correspondence	Events People	Letter to Wendell H. Gilley from Lemuel T. Ward, Nov. 8, 1965 Identifier: 1565    Type: Document, Correspondence Subject: Events People Creator: Ward - Lemuel T. Ward (1896-1984) Date: 1965-11-08 Description: Lemuel T. Ward, the noted decoy carver, wrote this letter to Wendell Gilley after meeting him at an unnamed carving show
	1549	Wendell H. Gilley's Workshop	Image, Photograph	Object, Furnishings, Table, Workbench	Wendell H. Gilley's Workshop Identifier: 1549    Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Object, Furnishings, Table, Workbench Date: 1969-02 Description: Wendell Gilley converted a barber's chair into the work "bench" shown in this photograph taken in his workshop.
	1576	Ellsworth American article, September 8, 1965	Newspaper Clipping	People	Ellsworth American article, September 8, 1965 Identifier: 1576    Type: Newspaper Clipping Subject: People Date: 1965-09-08 Description: Wendell Gilley meeting with National Wood Carvers Association officials Edwin Moore and Bernie Eilerman in his home in Southwests Harbor
	1578	Kent County News article, October 20, 1965	Newspaper Clipping	Events, Exhibitions People	Kent County News article, October 20, 1965 Identifier: 1578    Type: Newspaper Clipping Subject: Events, Exhibitions People Date: 1965-10-20 Description: Lists Wendell Gilley as one of America's top craftsmen exhibiting at the Kent County Chapter of the Maryland Ornithological Society show of waterfowl and upland game bird carvings in Nov. 1965. Other carvers exhibiting included Harold Haertel.
	1581	Bar Harbor Times article, November 20, 1969	Newspaper Clipping	Events, Exhibitions People	Bar Harbor Times article, November 20, 1969 Identifier: 1581    Type: Newspaper Clipping Subject: Events, Exhibitions People Date: 1969-11-20 Description: Announcement that Wendell Gilley would be attending a bird carving exhibition in Chestertown, Maryland. The carving of a bald eagle family that he entered in the exhibit is depicted.
	1583	Woodcarvers Slate Speaker Here Saturday	Newspaper Clipping	People	Woodcarvers Slate Speaker Here Saturday Identifier: 1583    Type: Newspaper Clipping Subject: People Date: 1967-05-17 Description: Article from the Evening Telegram (Herkimer, N.Y.), May 17, 1967. Wendell Gilley was the featured speaker at the National Woodcarvers Association's New York chapter's second annual meeting, according to the article, which gives biographical and professional information about him.
	1280	Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop - Dec. 1960	Image, Photograph	Birds Carvings People	Wendell H. Gilley in his workshop - Dec. 1960 Identifier: 1280    Type: Image, Photograph Subject: Birds Carvings People Date: 1960 - 12 Description: Wendell Gilley in his workshop with carvings of cormorants, heron, and osprey.

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