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Warrior Priest Figure

CultureMayan
Date700-900 C.E.
MediumClay and pigment
DimensionsOverall: 13 × 5 1/4 × 2 1/2 inches (33.02 × 13.34 × 6.35 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number61-77
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • L14
Exhibition History

The Imagination of Primitive Man, The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, January 18-February 25, 1962, no. 232-B.

Painted Worlds: Color and Culture in Mesoamerican Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 1, 2025-February 8, 2026.

Provenance

With Black Tulip Galleries, Inc., Dallas, TX, no. E83, by September 1961 [1];

Purchased from Black Tulip Galleries, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.

NOTES:

[1] A label with this stock number is on the bottom of the object. Black Tulip Galleries was operated by dealer Everett Rassiga.

Published References

Frederick J. Dockstader, Indian Art in Middle America (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1964), 39, plate 82, (repro.).

Ralph T. Coe, The Imagination of Primitive Man, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: University Trustees, William Rockhill Nelson Trust), 1962), 142-43, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 244, (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 91, (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 153, (repro).

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