About the Artwork
Heddle
ca. 1900
John Young Bear
Native American
Native American
Sauk and fox
Walnut
Overall: 13 1/2 × 9 1/8 × 1 inches (34.3 × 23.2 × 2.5 cm)
Art Technique
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.369
Public Domain
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Provenance
purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] at Tama, Iowa, USA;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 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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Feder, N. Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1971, p. 100, no. 139 (ill.).
The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 1973, no. 346.
Glubak, S. Art of the Woodlands Indian. New York, 1976, p. 25 (ill.).
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 167.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
John Young Bear, Heddle, ca. 1900, walnut. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.369.
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