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ProvenanceAcquired by Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs in Ohio, between 1787 and 1801; descended in family (family tradition has it that Meigs acquired this pouch from local Delaware Indians in 1795); this tradition almost certainly relates to the pouch T0009 also acquired by Col. Meigs; Sotheby's, New York City, 1991
BibliographySotheby's (London), Sale 6245, 26 November 1991, lot 89.
Van Norman Turano, Jane. "Sotheby's New York Two Very Special Family Collections." Maine Antique Digest, February 1992, pp.46-B & 47-B.
Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.94.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 92.
Culture
Lenape (Delaware)
Pouch
Date1795-1820
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (19.1 × 19.1 cm)
Object numberT0009
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor, NYC
Label TextThis shot pouch is typical of bags made by western Lenape people in the early parts of the 1800s. made of black dyed skin, its general shape and layout of decoration reveals strong influences from Great Lakes region indigenous art. However, the decorative pattern is highly abstracted in character. Colonel Return Meigs, a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolution War, acquired this bag sometime in the early 1800s and it descended in the Meigs family until 1991.ProvenanceAcquired by Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs in Ohio, between 1787 and 1801; descended in family (family tradition has it that Meigs acquired this pouch from local Delaware Indians in 1795); this tradition almost certainly relates to the pouch T0009 also acquired by Col. Meigs; Sotheby's, New York City, 1991
BibliographySotheby's (London), Sale 6245, 26 November 1991, lot 89.
Van Norman Turano, Jane. "Sotheby's New York Two Very Special Family Collections." Maine Antique Digest, February 1992, pp.46-B & 47-B.
Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.94.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 92.
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