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The Imagination of Primitive Man, The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, January 18-February 25, 1962, no. 233.
Painted Worlds: Color and Culture in Mesoamerican Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 1, 2025-February 8, 2026.
With John Wise, Ltd., New York, by May 1960 [1];
Purchased from John Wise, Ltd. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1960.
NOTES:
[1] British anthropologist Sir J. Eric S. Thompson (1898-1975) translated the object’s glyphs in a statement dated September 1946, copy in Nelson-Atkins Registration file. Thompson’s notes do not indicate the object’s location or ownership at that time. This object is illustrated in Miguel Covarrubias, Indian Art of Mexico and Central America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957), 252, plate 53, but its location and ownership at the time of the book’s publication are not indicated.
Miguel Covarrubias, Indian Art of Mexico and Central America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957), 252, plate 53, (repro.).
Ralph T. Coe, The Imagination of Primitive Man, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: University Trustees, William Rockhill Nelson Trust), 1962), 142, 145, (repro.).
