Digging Stick Handle
CultureChinook, Oregon or British Columbia, Lower Columbia River
Dateca. 1750
MediumElk horn
DimensionsOverall: 10 3/4 × 3 1/2 × 1 1/4 inches (27.31 × 8.89 × 3.18 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.72
On View
Not on viewDescriptionHandle for a camas root digging stick.Provenance
From the Tokeland Hotel, Tokeland, WA, 1895-1946;
Loaned by William Kindred to Capitol Museum, Olympia, WA, 1942-1997;
Purchased from Taylor Dale Gallery, Santa Fe, NM by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), 1999;
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.
Gilbert T. Vincent et at, Art of North American Indians: The Thaw Collection, (Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum; Seattle, WA: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2000), 179, no. T-704.
Coe, Ralph T., Lost and Found Traditions: Native American Art, 1965–1985, Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1988), 164, no. 220.
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