About the Artwork
Shoulder Bag
ca. 1860
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Native american
Delaware
Wool fabric, cotton fabric and thread, silk ribbon and glass beads
Overall: 22 × 17 × 1 inches (55.9 × 43.2 × 2.5 cm) Mount (cloth-covered support): 1/8 inches (0.3 cm)
Costume Accessories
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.216
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Bandolier bag
Beading (process)
Beadwork
Cones
Cotton (textile)
Crosses (motifs)
Cruciform
Delaware
Embroidering
Floral patterns
Fringe
Geometric patterns
Glass
Leaf (plant material)
Lozenges
Oklahoma
Plant-derived motifs
Ribbon
Shoulder bag
Silk (textile)
Thread
Triangles (polygons)
Weaving
Wool (textile)
Markings
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Provenance
Museum of Natural History and Science (Louisville, Kentucky, USA)
23 June 1978, acquired by exchange by Richard A. Pohrt, Flint, Michigan, USA)
1981-present, purchased 1981 by the 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: The Detroit Institute of Arts and University of Washington Press, 1992, cat. no. 48.
"FAMILY ART GAME", DIA Advertising Supplement, DETROIT NEWS, April 10, 1983, p 19 (ill).
Penney, David W. and George C. Longfish, Native American Art,
Southport, CT: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1994, pp. 60-61.
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: A Portfolio
New York: The New Press, 1995, plate no. 4.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Delaware, Native American, Shoulder Bag, ca. 1860, wool fabric, cotton fabric and thread, silk ribbon and glass beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.216.
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