About the Artwork
Coat
ca. 1835
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Native American
Cree
Tanned hide (possibly moose and caribou), cotton, and porcupine quills
Overall: 37 × 27 × 3 inches (94 × 68.6 × 7.6 cm)
Costumes
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation
81.231.1
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Provenance
collected by Stephen F. Gale;ca. 1920, purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981];
purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA);
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Native American Heritage. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1977, p. 132, no. 152.
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, cat. no. 101.
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: A Portfolio New York: The New Press, 1995, (pl. 12).
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Cree, Native American, Coat, ca. 1835, tanned hide (possibly moose and caribou), cotton, and porcupine quills. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation, 81.231.1.
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