About the Artwork
Sash
ca. 1830
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Native american
Meskwaki
Wool yarn and glass beads
Overall (maximum): 51 × 10 7/8 inches (129.5 × 27.6 cm) Overall (minimum): 47 1/4 × 10 3/4 inches (120 × 27.3 cm) Overall (maximum fringe length): 28 inches (71.1 cm) Overall (minimum fringe length): 24 inches (61 cm)
Costume Accessories
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.421
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Collected by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] at Tama, Iowa, USA
purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)
1981-present, purchased 1981 by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, no. 166.
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, cat. no. 9.
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Meskwaki, Native American, Sash, ca. 1830, wool yarn and glass beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.421.
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