About the Artwork
Shoulder Bag
ca. 1885
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Native american
Chippewa
Wool fabric and yarn, cotton fabric and thread, glass beads, metal buttons
Overall: 41 × 15 1/2 inches (104.1 × 39.4 cm) Overall (bag with lappets): 21 × 12 1/4 inches (53.3 × 31.1 cm)
Costume Accessories
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.297
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Provenance
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)
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The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, no. 225.
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and University of Washington Press, 1992, cat. no. 55.
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Chippewa, Native American, Shoulder Bag, ca. 1885, wool fabric and yarn, cotton fabric and thread, glass beads, metal buttons. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.297.
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