About the Artwork
Mide Bag
ca. 1850
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Native american
Santee sioux
Otter skin, quills, feather, ribbon, german silver, and tin cones
Overall: 2 5/8 × 43 × 7 1/4 inches (6.7 × 109.2 × 18.4 cm)
Leatherwork, Hide, Animal Material
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.218
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Provenance
said to have belonged to the brother of Little Crow. (Alan Brown, dealer, Chicago, Illinois, USA)
1952, purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Santee Sioux, Native American, Mide Bag, ca. 1850, otter skin, quills, feather, ribbon, German silver, and tin cones. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.218.
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