Blanket Strip, ca. 1870

  • Blackfeet, Native American

Buffalo hide and glass beads

  • Overall: 67 × 8 1/2 inches (170.2 × 21.6 cm)

Gift of Thomas Pohrt in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt

2000.35

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Museum of Science and History (Louisville, Kentucky, USA)

by exchange, Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] and Marion D. Pohrt (Flint, Michigan, USA)

2000-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 87.

Blackfeet, Native American, Blanket Strip, ca. 1870, buffalo hide and glass beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Thomas Pohrt in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt, 2000.35.