About the Artwork
Moccasin Cuff
ca. 1835
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1773 - 1847
Native american
Miami
Wool with silk applique
Overall (folded in half): 3 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (8.6 × 24.4 cm)
Costumes
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.617
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Frances Slocum (near Peru, Indiana, USA), maker of the cuff
Cammelius Bundy, her relative, obtained it from her cabin
purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]
purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)
1981-present, purchased 1981 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Frances Slocum, Miami, Moccasin Cuff, ca. 1835, Wool with silk applique. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.617.
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