About the Artwork
Miniature Chest
ca. 1840
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Native american
Ottawa
Birch bark, porcupine quills, spruce root, thread and blue cloth
Overall: 5 × 10 1/16 × 5 13/16 inches (12.7 × 25.6 × 14.8 cm)
Wood and Woodcarving
Indigenous Americas
Gift of David W. Penney and Adriana Greci Green
2008.34
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Provenance
David W. Penney and Adriana Greci Green (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
2008-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Before and after the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes. Exh. cat., National Museum of the American Indian. Washington, D.C., 2013, p. 30.
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Ottawa, Native American, Miniature Chest, ca. 1840, birch bark, porcupine quills, spruce root, thread and blue cloth. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of David W. Penney and Adriana Greci Green, 2008.34.
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