Native American & Tribal Arts
This is a new interest for us and you can expect to find baskets, totems, Pueblo pots and Navajo jewelry.
Carved African ceremonial mask from the Ivory Coast. Early 20th C.
Price: $75
ITEM: 59840
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First half 20th C. Native American model birch bark canoe with colored porcupine quill decoration. Overall very good condition with some losses to the quill decoration. 25″ long, 8″ wide, 7 1/2″ high on stand. Displayed on a contemporary wood stand.
Price: $135
Price: SOLD
ITEM: 617ME55
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Small (7 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ top and 3 1/4″ tall) early Southwest Native American Pueblo Drum, late 19th or early 20th C. Cottonwood drum body and raw hide heads and stretching cords. Retains its original polychrome decoration on heads and sides. Overall condition is good for its age and use. Some wear to the decoration on the 2 heads ( one more than the other) and some scuffing and scratches on the body. Small piece (1 1/2″) of stretching raw hide missing but does not affect heads.
Price: $175
Price: SOLD
ITEM: 1115T35
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Very large Southwest Pueblo Indian painted drum. 11″ diameter and 10 1/8″ high. Nice original condition with its original hide heads and ties. Early 20th C. From a CA collection.
Price: $425
Price: SOLD
ITEM: 1011EB187
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Very large and unusual 19th C. feast ladle made of pewter (bowl, eye inlays, beak decoration), copper(portion of bowl) and wood. The copper backing for the bowl is riveted to the pewter bowl with 12 copper rivets and another to connect the bowl to the wood handle. Carved wood handle with large carved face and bird with long beak that sets into the handle. Overall 14″ long, pewter bowl is 6 1/2″, wood handle is 10″, beak 2 3/8″. From an old Seatlle collection of Northwest Coast decorative arts.
Price: $1495
ITEM: 610EB65
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Small Southwest Native American basket with 6 animals. Very tight weave – 3″ diameter, 1 1/2″ high, 1 3/4″ loss along the rim (visible in photo), otherwise very good condition. Probably Apache origin, c. 1900.
Price: $295
ITEM: 710M3
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Fine old Pacific Northwest Coast Kwakiutl Indian Ceremonial Dance Mask attributed to master carver Jack James (1902-1980). Attribution based on comparisons to known masks and we believe this mask to be from his earlier work, c. 1935. Jack James was a contemporary of Willie Seaweed, a very respected carver of masks. This mask represents Bookwus or Wild Man of the Woods. Reference – Art of the Kwakiutl Indians by Audrey Hawthorn, pgs 291-296 for similar examples. The mask is carved from red cedar and retains its dance rigging and original natural hair pegged into the mask. It is painted in its original pigments that have aged to s soft patina. It is in fine original condition with normal paint wear. The size is 13″ x 9″ and 8 1/2″ deep. Acquired from a Seattle, WA collection.
Price: $2475
ITEM: 129EB150
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19th C. Native American Effigy Mask carved from a whale bone vertebra (whale spine section). Depicts Inuit face with bird crest. Bird has baleen eyes. 13 1/2″ high, 7 1/4″ wide and 7″ deep.
Price: $2300
ITEM: 68PA120
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Late 19th or early 20th C. painting on leather of an Indian chief in profile. Excellent colors and artistic style. All original except frame. which may be the first frame, but done later in the painting’s life. From an old Buffalo, NY collection. Sight size is 18″ by 13″
Price: $1495
ITEM: 509MW825
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