About the Artwork
Leggings
ca. 1840
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Native american
Chippewa
Wool cloth, glass beads, silk ribbon, bast fiber straps, and thread (possibly cotton)
Overall (each): 23 1/4 × 12 × 1/8 inches (59.1 × 30.5 × 0.3 cm)
Costumes
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council
1990.266
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
private museum in Ohio, USA
ca. 1988, purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)
given to Richard Pohrt, Jr.
1990-present, purchase by Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 26.
Penney, David W. and George C. Longfish. Native American Art. Southport, CT, 1994, p. 65.
Penney, David W. Native American Art Masterpieces. Southport, CT, 1996, pp. 28-29.
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Chippewa, Native American, Leggings, ca. 1840, wool cloth, glass beads, silk ribbon, bast fiber straps, and thread (possibly cotton). Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council, 1990.266.
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