Yellowlegs
Accession #:
81.1.71
Title:
Yellowlegs
Medium:
Polychromed Wood
Subject:
Description:
Life size; working/decorative decoy - disassembles into four pieces: beak, head, body and leg/base - body hollow, hinged on bottom, closes on back with hasp, head and beak can be enclosed in body; glass eyes, painted detail, single dowel leg set in driftwood base. Signed "Gilley '69" on rear of base. Marked "Only two made, property of Addie Gilley" on underside of base.
A copy of a decoy pattern, one of two ever made by W.H. Gilley.
A copy of a decoy pattern, one of two ever made by W.H. Gilley.
Date:
1969
Dimensions:
27 x 27 x 10cm; 257g
Location:
On View
Citation
Gilley - Wendell Holmes Gilley (1904-1983), “Yellowlegs,” Wendell Gilley Museum, accessed November 25, 2024, https://wgm.digitalarchive.us/items/show/81.Item 1079