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“Tiki” Pendant

CultureMaori
Datepre-European contact
MediumGreenstone/nephrite jade
DimensionsOverall: 3 1/8 × 1 7/8 × 3/8 inches (7.94 × 4.76 × 0.95 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.118
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis small carved jade depicts a seated figure with its head tiled to left side.Exhibition History
<NO_RECORDS>, Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2022.
Provenance

With the collection of Dr. Peter Furst (1922-2015), Santa Fe, NM;

With the collection of John Clay, Los Angeles, CA

With Skip Holbrook II, Santa Fe, NM;

Purchased from Skip Holbrook II by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), August 2003-2010;

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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