About the Artwork
Four Leaders in Medicine Dance
ca. 1890
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Native american
Sioux
Graphite, colored pencil, and ink on paper
Framed (Dance exhibition): 14 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 1 3/8 inches (37.5 × 47.6 × 3.5 cm) Sheet: 5 3/4 inches × 9 inches (14.6 × 22.9 cm)
Artists Books
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.233.3A
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Markings
Inscribed upper right, in pencil: 4
Provenance
Collected by George Wright, United States Indian Agent at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, USA. 1925/30, purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] in Chicago, Illinois, 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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Sioux, Native American, Four Leaders in Medicine Dance, ca. 1890, graphite, colored pencil, and ink on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.233.3A.
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