Beaded Bag, ca. 1870

  • Winnebago, Native American

Plant fiber, glass beads, wool yarn and hide tie

  • Overall: 2 3/8 × 3 3/8 inches (6 × 8.6 cm) Overall (with leather tie): 8 × 3 3/8 inches (20.3 × 8.6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

81.368

Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]

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

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

The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, no. 432. Lurie, N.O. "Beaded Twined Bags of the Great Lakes Indians." Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 1 (1986): 39- 45, figs. 7-8.

Winnebago, Native American, Beaded Bag, ca. 1870, plant fiber, glass beads, wool yarn and hide tie. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.368.