About the Artwork
Spoon
ca. 1850
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Native american
Yankton sioux
Wood (possibly maple) and glass beads
Overall: 3 1/2 × 13 1/2 × 3 inches (8.9 × 34.3 × 7.6 cm)
Wood and Woodcarving
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase, Lillian Henkel Haass Fund and the Clarence E. Wilcox Fund
1988.60
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Provenance
collected by Rev. David W. Clark, Episcopal missionary, possibly at Lower Brulé (South Dakota, USA) or Crow Creek Reservation. James Gillihan (Yankton, South Dakota, USA)
1982, purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA) and his wife, Marion D. Pohrt
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 and London, 1992, cat. no. 210.
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Yankton Sioux, Native American, Spoon, ca. 1850, wood (possibly maple) and glass beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Lillian Henkel Haass Fund and the Clarence E. Wilcox Fund, 1988.60.
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