Autograph Book, ca. 1890

  • Sioux, Native American

Cover is possibly leather over boards; each page is pen and ink, graphite pencil, and colored pencil on wove paper, some dry mounted to 2-ply mat board

  • Overall (covers): 6 × 9 inches (15.2 × 22.9 cm) Sheet (each): 5 3/4 × 9 inches (14.6 × 22.9 cm) Overall (dry mount): 13 3/8 × 16 1/8 inches (34 × 41 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

V2015.37

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)