About the Artwork
Tobacco Bag
ca. 1880
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Native american
Sioux
Buckskin, glass beads, porcupine quills and yellow pigment
Overall: 26 1/2 × 6 × 1 1/8 inches (67.3 × 15.2 × 2.9 cm)
Leatherwork, Hide, Animal Material
Indigenous Americas
Gift of Richard A. Pohrt, Jr. in honor of Richard and Marion Pohrt
2000.30
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Provenance
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)
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Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 117.
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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.
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