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Hair Ornament

CultureCaddo, Oklahoma
Dateca. 1900
MediumStroud, trade tacks, tin cones, dyed horsehair, and German silver
DimensionsOverall (with fringe and leather hanging cord): 21 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 1 5/8 inches (53.98 × 16.51 × 4.13 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.69
On View
Not on view
DescriptionAn hourglass-shaped woman's hair tie.Exhibition History

Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art, Organized by the Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM, July 2015–2016.

Provenance

Purchased from Spanish and Indian Trading Company, Santa Fe, NM by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), 1989;

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.


 



Published References

Bernstein, Bruce and Rachel de W. Wixom, Connoisseurship and Good Pie: Ted Coe and Collecting Native Art, (Santa Fe, NM, Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, Inc, 2015).

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