purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] at Tama, Iowa, USA
Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)
1981-present, purchased 1981 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Plant fiber, wool yarn and buckskin tie
Founders Society Purchase
81.390
purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] at Tama, Iowa, USA
Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)
1981-present, purchased 1981 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, no. 388. Phillips, R.B. "Dreams and Designs: Iconographic Problems in Great Lakes Twined Bags." Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 1 (1986): 26-37, figs. 7-8. Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and University of Washington Press, 1992, cat. no. 20.
Meskwaki, Native American, Bag, ca. 1860, plant fiber, wool yarn and buckskin tie. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.390.