Tobacco Bag, ca. 1880

  • Sioux, Native American

Buckskin, glass beads, porcupine quills and yellow pigment

  • Overall: 26 1/2 × 6 × 1 1/8 inches (67.3 × 15.2 × 2.9 cm)

Gift of Richard A. Pohrt, Jr. in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt

2000.30

1881-1883, said to have been collected at Fort Randall, North Dakota from one of Sitting Bull's band imprisoned there. Port Huron Public Library (Port Huron, Michigan, USA)

by exchange, Richard A. Pohrt

Richard and Marion Pohrt

2000-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 117.

Sioux, Native American, Tobacco Bag, ca. 1880, buckskin, glass beads, porcupine quills and yellow pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Richard A. Pohrt, Jr. in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt, 2000.30.