WINNOWED
It is not easy coming up with compelling and complex material show after show. This catalog is thinner than usual, but phat as ever—quality over quantity with no filler! Of course, we will be bringing more than these works of art to the fair, but herein are a group of well-winnowed works that deserve special attention. Enjoy! Come see this collection and more at The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show, April 20-22 (*preview party April 19, 2018). Location: The Navy Yard, 4747 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19112.
It is not easy coming up with compelling and complex material show after show. This catalog is thinner than usual, but phat as ever—quality over quantity with no filler! Of course, we will be bringing more than these works of art to the fair, but herein are a group of well-winnowed works that deserve special attention. Enjoy!
Come see this collection and more at The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show, April 20-22 (*preview party April 19, 2018).
Location: The Navy Yard, 4747 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19112.
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Ojibwa Mide'wiwin Figures<br />
Cottonwood, pigment<br />
Circa: 1840<br />
Size: 6" (oah)<br />
Provenance: W. E. Channing; Marvill Collection; Private<br />
Related examples: Denver Art Museum, 1946.265, 1946.266 for a near<br />
identical pair; Logan Museum of Anthropology, Albert Green Heath<br />
Collection, Beloit, WI, pair of like figures; The American Museum of<br />
Natural History, 50 / 5695 N, small female form medicine figure.<br />
These rare Woodlands figures were used by the Mide'wiwin or "Grand<br />
Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Indians. As part of a<br />
ceremony for attracting a marriage<br />
partner, the figures would be tied face to<br />
face and mixed with “love powder” in a<br />
bag.<br />
Excerpted from: THE MIDĒ´WIWIN OR<br />
“GRAND MEDICINE SOCIETY” OF THE<br />
OJIBWA, by W. J. Hoffman.<br />
“This love powder is held in high esteem,<br />
and its composition is held a profound<br />
secret, to be transmitted only when a great<br />
fee is paid. It consists of the following<br />
ingredients: Vermilion; powdered<br />
snakeroot and a piece of ginseng cut from<br />
the bifurcation of the root, and<br />
powdered.”<br />
A Pair of near identical figures from the<br />
collection at the Denver Art Museum,<br />
1946.265
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