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Quirt
Plains/Prairie
ca. 1850
elk horn, buffalo hide, cloth, glass beads, paint
width: (excluding hide) 11 ¼"
Inventory # P3633
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PROVENANCE
This elk horn quirt was acquired by Mordecai Thomas Bartram (1843-1904) a government licensed trader to the Iowa and Sauk between 1871 and 1873 at the Great Nemaha Indian Agency, Nohart, Nebraska. The quirt, together with a group of Bartram’s letters and other objects were passed down through the Bartram family.
PUBLISHED
Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2010, pgs. 32-33
RELATED EXAMPLE
Wardwell, Allen. Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998, pg. 62, pl. 63