Spoon, ca. 1860

  • Ottawa, Native American

Maple

  • Overall (irreg): 1 3/4 × 6 1/4 × 2 3/8 inches (4.4 × 15.9 × 6 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

81.42

Yellow Thunder (Cross Village, Michigan, USA)

July 1962, purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)

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

The Art of the Great Lakes Indians. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI, 1973, no. 315, (ill.). Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, cat. no. 172.

Ottawa, Native American, Spoon, ca. 1860, maple. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.42.