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Side Fringe Parfleche
Comanche or Lipan Apache
Southern Plains
Southern Plains
ca. 1850
hide, paint
height: incl. fringe: 33"
width: 11 ½"
Inventory # P3874
Sold
acquired by the Diker Collection, now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
PROVENANCE
The Charles Derby collection, Northhampton, MA
PUBLISHED
Eye of The Angel, Wooley, Northampton, White StarPress, 1990, pg. 70, pl. 13
Brasser, Ted. J. Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2009, pg. 152
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2012, pl. 41
Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection, David Penney et al., New York, NY, Skira Rizzoli, 2015, pg. 153
RELATED EXAMPLES
The British Museum, Wellcome Collection - See: Torrence, Gaylord. The American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994, pg. 150, pl. 52 and Coe, Ralph T. Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art. Kansas City: Nelson Gallery of Art, 1977, pg. 218, pl. 626, for an example collected in 1873 among the Lipan Apache
American Museum of Natural History, No. 50.2/4340 - See: Torrence, Gaylord. The American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994, pg. 148, pl. 51
National Museum of the American Indian. No. 12/7565 - See: Ibid, pg. 151, pl. 53