Ladle
CultureLakota, North or South Dakota
Dateca. 1880
MediumCow horn, remains of quill tie, and bead eyes
DimensionsOverall: 4 × 10 3/4 × 5 1/8 inches (10.16 × 27.31 × 13.02 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.44
On View
Not on viewWheelwright Museum of American Indian, 2015-2016.
Purchased from Dennis and Rose Lessard/Dell Enterprise, Santa Fe, NM by by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), 1991;
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.
Ewers, John C., Plains Indian Sculpture: A Traditional Art from America’s Heartland, (Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986), plate 26, 31, 174-178.
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