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Mide Bag

Mide Bag, ca. 1870

  • Chippewa, Native American

Bear skin, wool, and ribbon

  • Overall: 26 × 10 × 3 inches (66 × 25.4 × 7.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

81.217

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Details

by 1977 (Herb Myers, dealer, Montana, USA)

1977, purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)

1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Chippewa, Native American, Mide Bag, ca. 1870, bear skin, wool, and ribbon. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.217.

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