Oscar Carroll (VA, 1868-1946), Redhead

Upper Back Bay, Virginia, circa 1900, carved and painted wood.

Length 14.75 in.

Oscar Carroll carved his decoys from cypress knees which he cut from Muddy Creek near his farm. Cypress wood lasted a long time and his thick, oversized, high headssurvived years of use on the choppy waters of Back Bay.

Old gunning paint, bill a partial replacement.