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)
Walnut
Founders Society Purchase
81.369
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)
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, MI, 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.
John Young Bear, Heddle, ca. 1900, walnut. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.369.