Folk Art Hand Carved Primitive Eider Decoy

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Vintage Folk Art Hand Carved Primitive Eider Decoy. See photos for details, shows age and use. This is about as primitive and resourceful as eider hunting gets slong the Maine coast. Eider body looks like it may have been fashioned out of a wood post or buoy, topped with a nicely shaped root head,  rudimentarily painted and then balanced to float correctly by a carefully determined placement of just the right rock laced and tacked in place rawhide. And the crowning achievement of this early eider hunter was the tether weight consisting of a carefully laced triangular shaped rock on a long sissal decoy line. Although primitive by most carver standards, the eider possesses a degree of charm transcending it fron the mundane world of duck decoys to a lovable piece of folk art.