About the Artwork
Effigy Jar
between 1300 and 1500
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Native american
Mississippian
Clay
Overall: 9 1/2 × 6 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches (24.1 × 17.1 × 19.1 cm)
Ceramics
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Lynn W. and Stanley R. Day Fund
1991.115
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Provenance
(James L. Kinker, aka Joe Kinker, Lake St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
1991-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Penney, David W. and George C. Longfish. Native American Art. Southport, CT, 1994, p. 31.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Mississippian, Native American, Effigy Jar, between 1300 and 1500, clay. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Lynn W. and Stanley R. Day Fund, 1991.115.
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