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Dagger

CultureAbelam
Dateearly 20th century
MediumBone
DimensionsOverall: 15 × 2 × 1 7/8 inches (38.1 × 5.08 × 4.76 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.114
InscribedEtched name “Kelly”
On View
Not on view
DescriptionA bone dagger with a relief carving of a masked figure. The lower section of the blade is inscribed with the name "Kelly"Exhibition History
Hands on...Culture Shock!. Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM. April 25-December 31, 2015.
Provenance

Collected by Ron Perry (1932-2024), ca. 1970-1972;

With Taylor Dale Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, by 1996;

Purchased from Taylor Dale Gallery by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), Santa Fe, NM, April 20, 1996-2010;

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.

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