Bird Effigy Bowl, between 1300 and 1500

  • Mississippian, Native American

Shell-tempered earthenware

  • Overall: 7 1/8 × 6 7/8 × 8 3/4 inches (18.1 × 17.5 × 22.2 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Lillian Henkel Haass Fund, Dabco/Frank American Indian Art Fund, and Clarence E. Wilcox Fund

1987.1

On View

  • Native American, Level 1, South

Department

Indigenous Americas

(William E. Channing, New York, New York, USA)

1987-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts

Penney, David W. and George C. Longfish. Native American Art. Southport, CT, 1994, p. 38.

Mississippian, Native American, Bird Effigy Bowl, between 1300 and 1500, shell-tempered earthenware. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Lillian Henkel Haass Fund, Dabco/Frank American Indian Art Fund, and Clarence E. Wilcox Fund, 1987.1.