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Sacred Pack, ca. 1860

  • Meskwaki, Native American
  • Overall: 2 1/4 × 7 5/8 × 5 1/2 inches (5.7 × 19.4 × 14 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

81.392

Department

Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas

Details

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)

Meskwaki, Native American, Sacred Pack, ca. 1860. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.392.

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