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Blanket Strip

Blanket Strip, ca. 1860

  • Sioux, Native American

Buffalo hide and glass beads

  • Overall: 7 × 67 × 1/4 inches (17.8 × 170.2 × 0.6 cm)

Gift of Karl Pohrt in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt

2000.22

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Details

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

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 89.

possibly Sioux, Native American, Blanket Strip, ca. 1860, buffalo hide and glass beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Karl Pohrt in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt, 2000.22.

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