Trousers, ca. 1835

  • Cree, Native American

Tanned hide (possibly moose and caribou), cotton, and porcupine quills

  • Overall: 43 3/8 × 15 × 1 3/4 inches (110.2 × 38.1 × 4.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation

81.231.2

collected by Stephen F. Gale

ca. 1920, purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]

purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)

1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, cat. no. 102. Art Institute of Chicago, THE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE, July 16-Oct 30, 1977, p 132, no 152.

Cree, Native American, Trousers, ca. 1835, tanned hide (possibly moose and caribou), cotton, and porcupine quills. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation, 81.231.2.