About the Artwork
Coat
between 1835 and 1850
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Native american
Delaware
Buckskin, silk ribbon, glass beads
Overall: 39 1/2 inches (100.3 cm)
Costumes
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.219
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
unidentified private museum (northeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA). (purchased by Rex Arrowsmith, dealer, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
ca. 1970, 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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Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 23.
“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News, April 10, 1983, p. 17 (ill.).
Penney, David W. and George C. Longfish. Native American Art. Southport, CT, 1994, pp. 42-43.
Penney, David W. Native American Art Masterpieces. Southport, CT, 1996, pp. 24-25.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Delaware, Native American, Coat, between 1835 and 1850, buckskin, silk ribbon, glass beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.219.
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