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Bowl, ca. 1850

  • Pawnee, Native American

Ash (wood)

  • Overall: 5 7/8 × 11 3/4 × 12 inches (14.9 × 29.8 × 30.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

81.618

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

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)

Maurer, E.M. "Representational and Symbolic Forms in Great Lakes Area Wooden Sculpture." Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 1 (1986): 7-17, fig. 21. Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 209.

Pawnee, Native American, Bowl, ca. 1850, ash (wood). Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.618.