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Mide Figure

Anishinaabe
Western Great Lakes

ca. 1820

wood

height: 16 ¼"

Inventory # W4530

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Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2003, cover, inner cover, and pgs. 22-23

Gilbert T. Vincent, Masterpieces of American Indian Art, New York: Abrams Inc., 1995, pg. 17 

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, HD 7521 - See: The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples, Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1987, pl. W108

David W. Penney, Great Lakes Indian Art, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989, pg. 33

Norman Feder, Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art, Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1971, pls. 134 and 137 (for a Potowatami “love doll”), and pls. 74 and 75 for two examples of Sioux “Tree-dweller” dolls

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