Bowl, ca. 1850

  • Winnebago, Native American

Maple

  • Overall: 2 × 3 5/8 × 6 1/2 inches (5.1 × 9.2 × 16.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

81.116

Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]

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

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

Forest, Prairie, and Plains: Native American Art from the Chandler/Pohrt Collection. Exh. cat., the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1983, no. 4. Maurer, E.M. "Representational and Symbolic Forms in Great Lakes-Area Wooden Sculpture." Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 1 (1986): 7-17, fig. 2. Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, cat. no. 169.

Winnebago, Native American, Bowl, ca. 1850, maple. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.116.