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A CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED INDIAN PRINCESS TOBACCONIST FIGURE
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A CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED INDIAN PRINCESS TOBACCONIST FIGURE

PROBABLY DETROIT, MICHIGAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Fermé3 October 2007

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A CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED INDIAN PRINCESS TOBACCONIST FIGURE
PROBABLY DETROIT, MICHIGAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
69 in. high (overall), 57 in. high (the figure), 19½ in. wide, 22 in. deep
Base numbered in gilt 261

The Dudley E. Waters Collection, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Haffenreffer Collection of Cigar Store Indians, Parke-Bernet Galleries, October 10, 1956

Note du spécialiste

According to an article written in 1930 on the collection of Dudley E. Waters, this tobacconist figure is reputed to have come from a Northern Michigan cigar store. Lawrence F. Jessup, The Tobacconists Tribe of Treen, Antiques Magazine (September 1930), p. 232 fig. 2.