About the Artwork
Woman's Legging Panels
ca. 1835
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Native american
Ottawa
Glass beads, wool, cotton, silk ribbon
Overall (81.545.A): 18 1/4 × 4 1/2 inches (46.4 × 11.4 cm) Overall (81.545.B): 18 3/8 × 4 5/8 inches (46.7 × 11.7 cm)
Costumes
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.545
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
Collected by (Alfred Heath, dealer, active early 1920s, Chicago, Illinois, and Harbor Springs, Michigan, USA)
Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981]
purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)
1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Ottawa, Native American, Woman's Legging Panels, ca. 1835, glass beads, wool, cotton, silk ribbon. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.545.
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