Tom Young
1951 - Present
Tom Young is a wood-carver and "spearer" from northern Michigan who once served on the tribal council of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. He stains his fish decoys brown with reddish undersides (Art and Brad Kimball, Fish Decoys of the Lac du Flambeau Ojibway, 1988).
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