About the Artwork
Shoulder Bag
between 1750 and 1800
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Native American
Menominee
Blackened buckskin, porcupine quills and plant fiber
Overall: 25 × 7 1/4 × 1/4 inches (63.5 × 18.4 × 0.6 cm)
Costume Accessories
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, General Endowment Fund, and J. Lawrence Buell, Jr. Fund
1988.68
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Provenance
Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA);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, 1992, cat. no. 4.
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: A Portfolio. New York, 1995, (pl. no. 1).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
possibly Menominee, Native American, Shoulder Bag, between 1750 and 1800, blackened buckskin, porcupine quills and plant fiber. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, General Endowment Fund, and J. Lawrence Buell, Jr. Fund, 1988.68.
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