About the Artwork
Coffin Gorget
between 1500 and 500 BCE
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Native american
Glacial kame
Banded slate
Overall: 7 3/8 × 2 7/8 × 3/8 inches (18.7 × 7.3 × 1 cm)
Costume Accessories
Indigenous Americas
Museum purchase, Clarence E. Wilcox Fund, and Lillian Henkel Haass Fund
2010.102
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
possibly Gordon and Marcella Hart (Bluffton, Indiana, USA)
Steven L. and Susan C. Hart (Huntington, Indiana, USA)
2010-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Glacial Kame, Native American, Coffin Gorget, between 1500 and 500 BCE, banded slate. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum purchase, Clarence E. Wilcox Fund, and Lillian Henkel Haass Fund, 2010.102.
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