About the Artwork
Garter
ca. 1850
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Native American
Potawatomi
Glass beads, wool and cotton
Overall: 30 3/4 × 3 1/8 inches (78.1 × 7.9 cm)
Costume Accessories
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.312
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Provenance
Moses Thomas (Wisconsin Potawatomi; served in Union army during the Civil War);purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981];
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. 239, (illustration misnumbered as no 240).
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 17.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Potawatomi, Native American, Garter, ca. 1850, glass beads, wool and cotton. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.312.
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