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Mortar and pestle

CultureMassim
Dateca. 1925
MediumWood
Dimensions.1 (mortar): 5 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 1 1/2 inches (14.61 × 4.45 × 3.81 cm)
.2 (pestle): 5 × 1 × 1 inches (12.7 × 2.54 × 2.54 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.107.1,2
On View
Not on view
DescriptionA carved wooden figure depicting the head and torso only. The figure sits on top a long pillar secured to a base. The torso is incised with motifs and the face depicts aProvenance

With Joseph Benjamin Birdsell (1908-1994);

With Taylor Dale Gallery, by 2002;

Purchase from Taylor Dale Gallery by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), Decembere 12, 2002-2010;

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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