Shot Pouch
- Culture
- Lenape artist
- Date
- early 19th century
- made in
- North and Central America
- Classification
- Arms & armor, jewelry & personal accessories, textiles
- Collection
- Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 30 × 6 1/2 in. (76.2 × 16.5 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Elizabeth B. and Robert Wells Streett
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 18:2022
NOTES
Lobed, organic forms in blue cloth repeat across this red-cloth pouch and strap. White beads outline the appliqued designs, intensifying the tonal contrast. This pouch likely matched a beaded cloth strap, now lost, for a powder horn.
This is one of a handful of works which may be attributed to a Lenape artist from the early 19th century, before the group moved west of the Mississippi River. A shot pouch similar in design, materials, and scale was collected from a Lenape hunting guide in the Alleghany Mountains around the time when Lenape peoples lived in the Ohio Country.
This is one of a handful of works which may be attributed to a Lenape artist from the early 19th century, before the group moved west of the Mississippi River. A shot pouch similar in design, materials, and scale was collected from a Lenape hunting guide in the Alleghany Mountains around the time when Lenape peoples lived in the Ohio Country.
Provenance
Unidentified dealer, Kansas
-2004
Al Luckett, Santa Fe, NM, purchased from Kansas art dealer [1]
2004
Ned Jalbert, Ocean Ridge, FL, purchased from Al Luckett [2]
2004–2018
Charles and Valerie Diker, New York, NY, purchased from Ned Jalbert [3]
2018/04/06
In auction of “American Indian and Western Art” at Cowan’s, Cincinnati, April 6, 2018, lot no. 335 [4]
2018 - 2022
Elizabeth B. and Robert Wells Streett (d.2021), St. Louis, MO [5]
2022 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Elizabeth B. Streett [6]
Notes:
[1] In an email message dated May 24, 2022, Ned Jalbert wrote that he purchased the shot pouch on March 1, 2004, from Al Luckett and that it had been “collected in Kansas by a local dealer.” [SLAM document files]
[2] See note [1]. This shot pouch was included in a 2004 publication [Jalbert, Ned. "American Indian Masterworks." Westboro, MA: N. Jalbert, 2004, cat. no. 13].
[3] Ned Jalbert confirmed that he “sold the pouch to the Dikers during the ‘Whitehawk Indian Art Show’ in Santa Fe, August 12–16th, 2004.” See the May 24, 2022, email message from Jalbert [SLAM document files].
[4] See online record of Cowan’s auction sale, April 6, 2018, lot 335. https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/an-early-anishinaabe-beaded-wool-bandolier-3212232. Ned Jalbert wrote that the Dikers consigned this work to auction. See the May 24, 2022, email message from Jalbert [SLAM document files].
[5] The object tag from collector includes 18-06 inventory number; in the Streett collection, the first two digits of inventory numbers correspond to the year acquired, i.e., 18 stands for 2018.
[6] Deed of Gift dated May 2, 2022 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, May 2, 2022.
-2004
Al Luckett, Santa Fe, NM, purchased from Kansas art dealer [1]
2004
Ned Jalbert, Ocean Ridge, FL, purchased from Al Luckett [2]
2004–2018
Charles and Valerie Diker, New York, NY, purchased from Ned Jalbert [3]
2018/04/06
In auction of “American Indian and Western Art” at Cowan’s, Cincinnati, April 6, 2018, lot no. 335 [4]
2018 - 2022
Elizabeth B. and Robert Wells Streett (d.2021), St. Louis, MO [5]
2022 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Elizabeth B. Streett [6]
Notes:
[1] In an email message dated May 24, 2022, Ned Jalbert wrote that he purchased the shot pouch on March 1, 2004, from Al Luckett and that it had been “collected in Kansas by a local dealer.” [SLAM document files]
[2] See note [1]. This shot pouch was included in a 2004 publication [Jalbert, Ned. "American Indian Masterworks." Westboro, MA: N. Jalbert, 2004, cat. no. 13].
[3] Ned Jalbert confirmed that he “sold the pouch to the Dikers during the ‘Whitehawk Indian Art Show’ in Santa Fe, August 12–16th, 2004.” See the May 24, 2022, email message from Jalbert [SLAM document files].
[4] See online record of Cowan’s auction sale, April 6, 2018, lot 335. https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/an-early-anishinaabe-beaded-wool-bandolier-3212232. Ned Jalbert wrote that the Dikers consigned this work to auction. See the May 24, 2022, email message from Jalbert [SLAM document files].
[5] The object tag from collector includes 18-06 inventory number; in the Streett collection, the first two digits of inventory numbers correspond to the year acquired, i.e., 18 stands for 2018.
[6] Deed of Gift dated May 2, 2022 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, May 2, 2022.
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