Ledger Painting

CultureKiowa, Oklahoma

Datelate 19th century

MediumHide, flesh side and paint (and possibly ink)

DimensionsOverall: 5 5/16 × 8 5/8 inches (13.49 × 21.91 cm)

Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025

Object number2025.56.79

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DescriptionLedger style painting of two human figures in profile. A chief indicated on the right side is addressing a female figure wrapped in a long striped blanket with skirt projecting below the knees. The male is also partially wrapped in a blanket holding a coup stick in his left hand while wearing a large feather bonnet.Exhibition History

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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