About the Artwork
War Club
ca. 1880
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Native american
Sioux
Stone, wood and beads
Overall: 24 × 3 × 3 7/8 inches (61 × 7.6 × 9.8 cm)
Arms and Armor
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.672
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Markings
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Provenance
Said to have belonged to Rain in the Face, a Sioux chief. Arthur Abraham. (Lynn Munger, dealer, Fremont, Indiana, 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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Feder, N. Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1971, p. 77, no. 86 (ill.).
Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, cat. no. 188.
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Sioux, Native American, War Club, ca. 1880, stone, wood and beads. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.672.
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