About the Artwork
Gorget
between 1200 and 1350
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Native american
Caddoan
Shell
Overall: 4 1/8 inches (10.5 cm)
Jewelry
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Dabco/Frank American Indian Art Fund
1986.6
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Found by Charlie Snell (Marked Tree, Arkansas, USA) at the McDuffie site in Craigshead County, Arkansas, USA. (John Baldwin, Early American Artistry, West Olive, Michigan, USA)
1986-present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.
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McGimsey, C. R. "An Engraved Shell Gorget from the McDuffee Site." Bulletin of the Arkansas Archaeological Society 5, no. 7 (1964): 128-9.
Phillips, P. and J. A. Brown. Pre-Columbian Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Cambridge, 1978, p. 111, fig. 148.
Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3 (1986): 15.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Caddoan, Native American, Gorget, between 1200 and 1350, shell. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Dabco/Frank American Indian Art Fund, 1986.6.
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