About the Artwork
The owner of this shirt painted red "power circles" arranged in a chain descending from the shoulders, from which a bolt of lightning strikes. The painted images of flying birds on the breast and back probably represent guardian spirits who offered blessings as gifts in a vision or a dream.
Man's Shirt
ca. 1860
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Native American
Cheyenne
Buckskin, wool, ermine skin, human hair, glass beads and pigment
Overall: 46 × 62 inches (116.8 × 157.5 cm)
Costumes
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation
1988.27
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Provenance
Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981];purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA) and his wife, Marion D. Pohrt;
1988-present, purchase by the 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. 84.
"Selected recent acquisitions." Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 4 (1989): 54 (ill.)
Bulletin of the DIA 65, nos. 2/3 (1989): 18, fig. 13, (ill.).
Penney, David W. and George C. Longfish. Native American Art.Southport, CT, 1994, pp. 88-89.
Penney, David W. Native American Art Masterpieces. Southport, CT, 1996, pp. 42-43.
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: A Portfolio. New York, 1995, no. 11.
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Cheyenne, Native American, Man's Shirt, ca. 1860, buckskin, wool, ermine skin, human hair, glass beads and pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation, 1988.27.
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