About the Artwork
Beaded Bag
ca. 1870
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Native american
Ottawa
Glass beads, plant fiber (possibly nettle), cotton thread
Overall: 3 × 5 inches (7.6 × 12.7 cm)
Costume Accessories
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.282
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Provenance
possibly (Alfred Heath, dealer, active early 1920s, Chicago, Illinois, and Harbor Springs, Michigan, USA)
purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]
purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)
1981-present, purchased 1981 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, no. 427.
Beadwork and Textiles of the Ottawa. Exh. cat., Harbor Springs Historical Commission. Harbor Springs, 1984, p. 41, fig. 39 (ill.).
Lurie, N.O. "Beaded Twined Bags of the Great Lakes Indians." Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 1 (1986): 39-45, figs. 9-10.
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Ottawa, Native American, Beaded Bag, ca. 1870, glass beads, plant fiber (possibly nettle), cotton thread. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.282.
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