About the Artwork
Sun Dancers
ca. 1890
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Native American
Sioux
Pen and ink, graphite pencil, and colored pencil on wove paper, dry mounted to 2-ply mat board
Sheet: 5 3/4 × 9 inches (14.6 × 22.9 cm) Overall (dry mount): 13 3/8 × 16 1/8 inches (34 × 41 cm)
Artists Books
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.233.30
Public Domain
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Provenance
Collected by George Wright, United States Indian Agent at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, USA.1925/30, purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] in Chicago, Illinois, USA;
purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA);
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Sioux, Native American, Sun Dancers, ca. 1890, pen and ink, graphite pencil, and colored pencil on wove paper, dry mounted to 2-ply mat board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.233.30.
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