Artist Santee Sioux, Native American
Title
  • Mide Bag
Date ca. 1850
Medium otter skin, quills, feather, ribbon, German silver, and tin cones
Dimensions Overall: 2 5/8 × 43 × 7 1/4 inches (6.7 × 109.2 × 18.4 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase
Accession Number 81.218
Department Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
Not On View
said to have belonged to the brother of Little Crow.
(Alan Brown, dealer, Chicago, Illinois, USA);
1952, purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA);
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)