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Dress

Dress, 19th or 20th century

  • Sioux, Native American

Blue tradecloth, dentalium shells, and silk ribbon

  • Overall (length): 49 inches (124.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Clarence E. Wilcox Fund

1994.100

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Details

(Sherwoods Spirit of America, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA). October 21, 1994, auctioned by (Sotheby's, New York, New York, USA) lot 184

1994, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Sioux, Native American, Dress, 19th or 20th century, blue tradecloth, dentalium shells, and silk ribbon. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Clarence E. Wilcox Fund, 1994.100.

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