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Dog Figure

CultureIgorot
Dateca. 1940
MediumWood
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 × 5 1/4 × 13 inches (15.88 × 13.34 × 33.02 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.172
On View
Not on view
DescriptionA carved wooden figure of a dog with a short, pointy tail. The figure's face has wide, open eyes and a smile, revealing teeth.Provenance

Collected by Edward Bright Bruce (1879-1943) in Northern Luzon, Phillipines during the Aguinaldo Period (1899-1902);

With Margaret (Peggy) Bruce (1888-1979), by c.1958-1959;

Peggy Bruce's gift to Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), c. 1958-1959-2010;

His bequest to the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2010-2025;

The Coe Center's gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025

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Mask
late 19th to early 20th century
2025.56.132
recto overall
1911
2013.10.1.1
Royal Foot Rest
1911
2013.10.1.2
top overall
1911
2013.10.1.3.1-7
recto overall
1911
2013.10.2.1
Royal Foot Rest
1911
2013.10.2.2
Guardian Panel
late 19th to early 20th century
2025.56.134
Plaque of a Female Holding a Drum
2nd-1st century B.C.E.
2010.37