About the Artwork
Octopus Bag
ca. 1840
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Native american
Athapascan
Buckskin, caribou hide, porcupine quills
Overall: 16 1/2 × 8 1/4 × 3/8 inches (41.9 × 21 × 1 cm)
Costume Accessories
Indigenous Americas
Founders Society Purchase
81.59
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Ian West and Colin Taylor (England, UK)
August 1969, given to Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)
1981-present, purchase by 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. 105 (published as Metis-Cree from Red River region, Manitoba)
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Athapascan, Native American, Octopus Bag, ca. 1840, buckskin, caribou hide, porcupine quills. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.59.
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