Native American & Tribal Arts
This is a new interest for us and you can expect to find baskets, totems, Pueblo pots and Navajo jewelry.
Inuit round covered basket in excellent condition. First half 20th C. 9.5″ tall, 34.5″ circumference. Alaskan origin.
Price: $235
ITEM: 114P2
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Eastern Native American Snapping Turtle ceremonial rattle with its original Trade Bead wrapping and leather drops. Probably Iroquois Nation, 2nd Q 20th C. Very good original condition with 3 small holes in the very outer shell (the inner shell is all intact. The sinew sewn underside is all intact as well. 16 1/4″ long overall. From an Arkansas collection.
Price: $795
ITEM: 310EB785
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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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19th C. Northwest Coast Native American carved food bowl in the shape of a native halibut. Beautifully carved bowl with the halibut supported on a raised pedestal form. Well carved details with abalone inlayed eyes and original painted accents (yellow, black and red). Excellent original condition with a nice old worn patina. The wood is cedar. 19 3/8″ long, 7 3/4″ wide and 3 3/8″ high. A fine example from an old collection.
Price: $2850
ITEM: 78B220
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A fine and early (c. 1880) Yupik Eskimo Ceremonial Feast Ladle with red painted decorations and black painted fish design on the bowl. The ladle is quite large, yet delicately carved, paint decorated, and pleasingly graceful. It measures 18 1/2″ long and 6 1/2″ wide. It survives in very good condition with some nicks and a few small chips reglued on the front edge of the bowl. The natural pigments of red and black have mellowed with time. Traditionally the red pigment is made from ocher and seal blood, and the black from graphite. A fine, large high quality example. From a Washington State collection. Additional photos available on request.
Price: $750
ITEM: 128EB712
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A nice Acoma pot in the traditional cream, terra cotta and black colors. Good natural wear. Early to Mid 20th C. 6 1/2″ high with a 5″ Diameter opening in the top.
Price: $595
ITEM: 55P50
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A very crisp and bright c. 1900 Pima Indian basket decorated with a whirling log design. Excellent original condition with no observed broken or missing stitches. Size is 11 1/4″ diameter by 2 1/2″ high. From a British Columbia collection.
Price: $985
ITEM: 108CAN631
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African ceremonial mask, probably from Zaire. 1st half 20th C. 15″ high, 8 1/2″ wide.
Price: $135
ITEM: 58JNY4
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Extra large Northeastern Indian carved and paint decorated war club. Exceptionally well carved and painted in excellet condition. A few minor root tip losses on back of the club head. 26″ long, 9 1/2″ across root head. circa 2nd 1/4 1900’s. More detailed photos available.
Price: $475
ITEM: 511B375
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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: $850
ITEM: 610EB65
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