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Ledger Painting

CultureKiowa, Oklahoma
Dateca. 1875
MediumHide, flesh side and paint (and possible ink)
DimensionsOverall: 6 × 8 1/16 inches (15.24 × 20.48 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.78
On View
Not on view
DescriptionLedger style painting featuring a trio of human figures - one man and two women in a procession, abreast of each other. The man is striking a hand drum.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

With Daniel Brown, Berkeley, CA;

Purchased from the Marin County Ethnological Sale, CA, by Tad Dale, 2001;

Purchased from Taylor Dale Gallery, Santa Fe, NM by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), 2001;

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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