About the Artwork
The Thunderbirds visible in the center correspond to the four cardinal directions and serve as powerful guardian spirits of the sky. The scalps of many mallard ducks are used for the rich green of the lower portion of the pouch, representing the watery underworld.
Bag
ca. 1820
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Native american
Eastern sioux
Buckskin, mallard duck scalp, porcupine quills, tin cones, dyed deer hair
Overall: 11 × 5 × 7/8 inches (27.9 × 12.7 × 2.2 cm)
Costume Accessories
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation
81.488
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Ska-ba-quay (Mrs. Joseph Tesson, Meskwaki, ca. 1846–1929, Tama, Iowa,USA)
ca. 1922, 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. 11.
Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 4 (1981): 105 (ill.).
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and University of Washington Press, 1992, cat. no. 3.
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Eastern Sioux, Native American, Bag, ca. 1820, buckskin, mallard duck scalp, porcupine quills, tin cones, dyed deer hair. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Flint Ink Corporation, 81.488.
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