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About the Artwork

Crooked Knife

ca. 1860

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Native American

Ottawa

Wood (possibly maple), rawhide, steel

Overall: 3 × 10 1/2 × 1 5/8 inches (7.6 × 26.7 × 4.1 cm)

Sculpture

Indigenous Americas

Founders Society Purchase

81.293

Public Domain

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Provenance

purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] at Beaver Island, Michigan, USA;
purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA);
1981-present, purchased 1981 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 1973, p. 76, no. 342.

Penny, D.W., and J. Stouffer. "Horse Imagery in Native American Art." Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 1 (1986): pp. 18-25, (fig. 9).

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, cat. no. 165.

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Ottawa, Native American, Crooked Knife, ca. 1860, wood (possibly maple), rawhide, steel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.293.

Crooked Knife
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