Smithsonian Folklife Festival - 2004

Intro • Maritime • Haiti • Latino Music

Site for Jen Hitt and Participants

Site designed by Design Desk • Photos by Bobbi Clements

Douglas Gibson explains that his biggest pleasure from carving is to see that the only difference between a duck and his decoy is that his doesn't move.

Anthony Brooks, of Harkers Island, North Carolina, creates his decoys using only the hand tools of the old masters: hatchet, penknife, and rasp.

Duck decoys, works in progress, by Anthony Brooks