Mirror, ca. 1885

  • Omaha, Native American

Walnut, glass mirror and brass nails

  • Overall (irreg): 14 1/8 × 6 3/8 × 1 1/8 inches (35.9 × 16.2 × 2.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

81.427

Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]

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

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

Feder, N. Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1971, p. 72, no. 76. Penny, D.W. and J. Stouffer. "Horse Imagery in Native American Art." Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 1 (1986): 18-25, fig. 5. Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, cat. no. 193.

Omaha, Native American, Mirror, ca. 1885, walnut, glass mirror and brass nails. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.427.