About the Artwork
Witches Playing with Their Baby
ca. 1890
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Native american
Sioux
Graphite, colored pencil, and ink on paper
Sheet: 5 3/4 × 9 inches (14.6 × 22.9 cm)
Artists Books
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.233.3B
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Markings
Inscribed upper left, in pencil: 5
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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Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 220, p. 290.
Penney, David W. and George C. Longfish. Native American Art. Southport, CT, 1994, p. 114-115.
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Sioux, Native American, Witches Playing with Their Baby, ca. 1890, graphite, colored pencil, and ink on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.233.3B.
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