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Effigy Feast Bowl
Dakota
North Dakota
North Dakota
ca. 1860
wood, paint, steel eye tacks
height: 5 ¼"
width: 14"
Inventory # CP1884
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PROVENANCE
Collected at Fort Totten, North Dakota from a Sioux Indian, who possessed the bowl by descent through his family, who were residents of The Devil's Lake Reservation, North Dakota
Mrs. Clarissa Lowry Massey, now 86, by descent from her father, Ernest Benjamin, who worked on the Devil's Lake Reservation from 1927 until 1940
RELATED EXAMPLES
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Michigan, No. 81.643 - See: Great Lakes Indian Art, Penney, 1989, fig. 11, for a very similar bowl attributed to the Sauk and Fox.