About the Artwork
Effigy Figure
late 19th century
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Native american
Chippewa
Wood, iron nails and pigment
Overall: 36 3/4 × 5 × 7 inches (93.3 × 12.7 × 17.8 cm)
Sculpture
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation
81.67
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
John Ojibway (moved from the St. Ignace area to Cross Village, Michigan, USA)
by descent to the Frank Francis family (Cross Village, Michigan, USA)
1968, 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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The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, no. 529 (ill.).
Coe, R. Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art. Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery. London, 1976, p. 98, no. 158.
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 175.
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