Featherstick, ca. 1870

  • Fox, Native American

Feathers, wood, horsehair, porcupine quills, and rabbit fur

  • Overall: 11 1/2 × 1 1/8 × 1/2 inches (29.2 × 2.9 × 1.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

81.350.5

Billy Jones (of Fox tribe

Tama, Iowa, USA)

purchased by 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)

The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, no. 480.

Fox, Native American, Featherstick, ca. 1870, feathers, wood, horsehair, porcupine quills, and rabbit fur. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.350.5.