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Artist
Mitchell Zephier
(Sioux, born 1950)
CultureSioux (Central Plains), South Dakota
Datelate 1970s - 1989
MediumTrade silver, gilt silver, stone
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/4 × 2 1/8 × 3/8 inches (8.26 × 5.4 × 0.95 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.51
Inscribed"PVH Lakota Jewelry - sterling" stamped on back
On View
Not on viewLost and Found Traditions: Native American Art, 1965–1985, Organized by the American Federation of Arts, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, June 6–October 5, 1986.
Purchased from the Sioux Trading Post, Rapid City, SD by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), late 1970s-1990;
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.
Coe, Ralph T., Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art, 1965–1985, Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1988), 131, no. 143.
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