About the Artwork
Storage Bag
ca. 1890
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Native American
Potawatomi
Plant fiber (possibly cotton) and wool yarn
Overall: 17 × 25 1/2 inches (43.2 × 64.8 cm)
Textiles
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.372
Public Domain
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Provenance
Charles Tecumseh;purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981];
purchased? by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA);
1981-present, purchased 1981 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, no. 403 (ill.).
Phillips, R.B. "Dreams and Designs: Iconographic Problems in Great Lakes Twined Bags." Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 1 (1986): 26-37.
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, cat. no. 21.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Potawatomi, Native American, Storage Bag, ca. 1890, plant fiber (possibly cotton) and wool yarn. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.372.
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