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- ↑ " Archived 2010-12-13 at the Wayback Machine ", Cultivating Life: Duck Decoy Maker. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
- ↑ Ducks Unlimited, Hail Call publication, August 2012. Retrieved 12 Nov 2021
- ↑ Cashman, Ray; Mould, Tom; Shukla, Pravina (2011-09-21). The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-22373-9.
- ↑ Museum), Goizueta Folklife Gallery (Atlanta History; Burrison, John A. (2000). Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South : a Catalog of the Goizueta Folklife Gallery at the Atlanta History Center. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2150-9.
- ↑ "Ernie Mills: Decoy Maker". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
- ↑ Atlanta History - Volumes 37-38, 1993, page 72. Retrieved 12 Nov 2021
- ↑ The Albany Herald. February 23, 1998. p. 8.
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