Native American & Tribal Arts
This is a new interest for us and you can expect to find baskets, totems, Pueblo pots and Navajo jewelry.
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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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: SOLD
ITEM: 710M3
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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: $495
ITEM: 509MW825
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