Artist Mississippian, Native American
Title
  • Bird Effigy Bowl
Date between 1300 and 1500
Medium shell-tempered earthenware
Dimensions Overall: 7 1/8 × 6 7/8 × 8 3/4 inches (18.1 × 17.5 × 22.2 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Lillian Henkel Haass Fund, Dabco/Frank American Indian Art Fund, and Clarence E. Wilcox Fund
Accession Number 1987.1
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
On View Native American S131, Level 1 (see map)
(William E. Channing, New York, New York, USA);
1987-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts
Penney, David W. and George C. Longfish. Native American Art. Southport, CT, 1994, p. 38.