About the Artwork
Knife Case
ca. 1860
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Native American
Cheyenne
Rawhide, buckskin and glass
Overall: 10 1/8 × 4 × 1/2 inches (25.7 × 10.2 × 1.3 cm)
Arms and Armor
Indigenous Americas
Gift of Richard A. Pohrt, Jr. in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt
2000.31
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Provenance
1860s, collected at Fort C. F. Smith, Montana Territory [Crow Indian Reservation, Big Horn, Montana, USA] by a member of the construction crew;Louise Stegner (Omaha, Nebraska, USA);
1942, Richard A. Pohrt;
Richard and Marion Pohrt.
2000-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier. Exh. cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1994, no. 94.
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Cheyenne, Native American, Knife Case, ca. 1860, rawhide, buckskin and glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Richard A. Pohrt, Jr. in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt, 2000.31.
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