Minneapolis Institute of Art

Humidor

Designer: Joseph Heinrichs; Marcus & Company

Date

c. 1915

Medium

Copper, silver, arrowheads, bone

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Unlike the standard rectangular wooden boxes that keep cigars at the right humidity, Joseph Heinrichs’s humidor puts form before function. Eclectic decoration disguises its cigar-holding purpose. The bone handle, wire-wrapped arrowhead ornaments, and riveted silver—romanticizing Native American culture and the American frontier—give it a handcrafted look. Made for sale in New York, it may have been intended as a bit of the American West for wealthy city dwellers. United States, Americas

The authoritative record is held by Minneapolis Institute of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.