This collection includes photos and interviews documenting a series of traditional North Country duck decoy makers. Decoys are wooden - and sometimes plastic -  birds, usually ducks, used to attract birds when hunting. Decoys have been made in the North Country since approximately 1870, and many of the best examples are from between 1920 and 1960 for various economic and political reasons. While up until approximately 1970, in our region, these birds were carved out of wood by hand, hunters now use plastic decoys that weigh and cost less and have more life-like features. The art of the decoy is not lost, though, as many North Country collectors and makers continue to make extravagant wooden birds for show.