Pipe Stem, ca. 1830

  • Iowa, Native American

Ash wood with porcupine quillwork, horsehair and woodpecker scalp

  • Overall: 45 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 1 3/8 inches (115.6 × 11.4 × 3.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

81.237

Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]

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

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

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, cat. no. 198.

Iowa, Native American, Pipe Stem, ca. 1830, ash wood with porcupine quillwork, horsehair and woodpecker scalp. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.237.