Quirt, ca. 1880

  • Crow, Native American

Elk antler, rawhide, buckskin, glass beads

  • Overall: 1 7/8 × 41 1/4 × 3 1/2 inches (4.8 × 104.8 × 8.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Mary G. and Robert H. Flint Foundation

2000.3

2000-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier. Exh. cat., the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1993, no. 197. Pohrt, Richard A. "Plains Indian Riding Quirts with Elk Antler Handles." American Indian Art Magazine 3, no. 4 (1970): 67, figs. 12a and b.

Crow, Native American, Quirt, ca. 1880, elk antler, rawhide, buckskin, glass beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Mary G. and Robert H. Flint Foundation, 2000.3.