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Eagle Feather for Roach Spreader
ca. 1870
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Native american
Fox
Eagle feather, ivory-billed woodpecker scalp, wood, porcupine quills, horsehair, rooster hackle, ermine fur and bone
Overall: 17 1/4 inches (43.8 cm)
Costume Accessories
Indigenous Americas
Gift of Richard A. Pohrt
81.679
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Provenance
acquired by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] at Tama, Iowa, USA
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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Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, p. 66, no. 280.
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Fox, Native American, Eagle Feather for Roach Spreader, ca. 1870, eagle feather, ivory-billed woodpecker scalp, wood, porcupine quills, horsehair, rooster hackle, ermine fur and bone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Richard A. Pohrt, 81.679.
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