About the Artwork
Moccasins
ca. 1830
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Native american
Iroquois
Buckskin, wool, cotton, glass beads, porcupine quill
Overall: 9 1/4 × 3 3/4 × 4 inches (23.5 × 9.5 × 10.2 cm)
Costumes
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation
1988.32
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Benson L. Lanford, Lanford-Gilmore, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA) and his wife, Marion D. Pohrt
1988-present, purchased 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. 7.
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Haudenosaunee/Seneca, Native American, Moccasins, ca. 1830, buckskin, wool, cotton, glass beads, porcupine quill. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation, 1988.32.
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