About the Artwork
Powder Horn
ca. 1815
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Native american
Delaware
Horn and wood
Overall (irreg): 2 1/2 × 11 5/8 × 3 1/8 inches (6.4 × 29.5 × 7.9 cm)
Carving
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.49
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed and dated: History of Creation T.D. 1815
Provenance
Mrs. Ada Swan (Flint, Michigan, USA), who believed that the powder horn was brought from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin in a covered wagon
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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Credit Line for Reproduction
Delaware, Native American, Powder Horn, ca. 1815, horn and wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.49.
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