Pair of Bookends
Artist
Teddy Weahkee
(North American Indian, Zuni, New Mexico, 1890 - 1965)
Dateca. 1950
MediumSilver, shell, jet, and turquoise
DimensionsEach: 9 7/8 × 7 × 4 1/2 inches (25.08 × 17.78 × 11.43 cm)
Credit LineGift of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer
Object number2018.42.4.1,2
MarkingsSee conservation report, 7/25/2018
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionSilver bookends inlaid with images of the Knife Wing god with a combined human-bird form.ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Tony and Marti Oppenheimer, Westlake Village, CA;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 2018
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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