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Gun Case, ca. 1890

  • Gros Ventre, Native American

Buffalo hide and glass beads

  • Overall: 41 inches (104.1 cm)

Gift of Richard A. Pohrt, Jr. in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt

2000.29

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

2000-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1993, no. 137.

Gros Ventre, Native American, Gun Case, ca. 1890, buffalo hide and glass beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Richard A. Pohrt, Jr. in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt, 2000.29.