2013 April Treasures & Tribes Auction

This is a nice collection of 100 arrowheads and handmade flint, limestone and obsidian tools from the Spradling estate in Northern Nevada. Pieces rang

The group consists of about 100 arrowheads and Clovis point like arrowheads lay out in a frame. The arrowheads appear to have been made out of limesto

This is a framed and mounted display of a bead and shell collection that was, according to the consignor, gathered in the field and not a bead store.

This lot consists of several items handcrafted by Nevada Paiute artisan Burton Pete in recent times. This beautiful package includes a hand whittled d

This is a lot of 60 various sizes of arrowheads in a nice framed shadow box (20"x 13.5". heads are made out of several different types of ...

Beaded moccasins believed to be Paiute. Each moccasin measures 10.75" long. Both have decorative colored beading and fur trim. There is some we...

This is a nice lot of about 70 various size arrowheads measuring from about 3" to 0.50". All appear to be made of flint, some possibly obs...

This Washoe or Paiute style basket measures 5.5" x 4" and has several triangles in a grouping of 3 throughout the basket. This basket is f...

This is a lot of seven dolls in various American Indian dress, both ceremonial and non ceremonial. Included is a Bear dancer, Owl dancer and eagle dan

The lot is a group of 19 arrow and spearheads laid out in a frame. The tools range in size from 2.55" x .80" and 6.5" x 2.75." T...

This basket is about 21" tall and 14" across. The basket features a diamond pattern with 6 dashes appearing throughout. The basket has som...

This medium size basket is from the Spradling Estate. This basket measures 13.5" tall and 12" across. The basket has fading on the outside...

This is a trio of beautifully made Shoshone baskets. Two are bottleneck design, one is bowl design. The smaller of the two bottlenecks measures about

Lot of 2: 1) Executive Documents: Report of the Secretary of Interior (1863). Includes information on the newly erected Territory of Idaho, with some

This is a pair of deerskin leather gloves from Austin, Nevada. These are lined, fringed and decorated with seed bead butterflies and a border along th

This is a Washoe Indian utility basket, used for gathering, storage and whatever was needed. There is an attached handle and some unraveling. The bask

A lovely small example of fine Washoe basketry. This coiled basket is made of willow with bracken fern root used in the flower and zigzag design (whic

This is a beautifully made Washoe storage basket from the 1930s. The basket measures 14"x 20", has a flat bottom and a leather thong that ...

This lot includes 3 stereoviews of native american indians of various tribes. 1) An image of a native american tribe standing in a line, with a young

This is a lot of two Klamath Indian baskets. The large bucket style basket is 9" high, with a 6" base and a 10" opening. The bowl sty...

This ferrotype (an image printed on a thin, blackened sheet of metal) measures 2.5" x 3.5", and 3"x 4.75" in its red card holder...

Photograph measures 2.25" x 2.75" and 3" x 3.5" in holder. Dark to medium contrast and focus is sharp, but blurred in some spots...

Lot of 3. 1)Mexican and Central American Antiquities, Calendars, and History. Seler, Eduard, E. Forstemann, Paul Shellhas, Carl Sapper, and E.P. Diese

Lot of 2. 1)Analytical and Critical Bibliography of the Tribes of Tierra del Fuego and Adjacent Territory.Cooper, John M. Bulletin No. 63 (1917). Atte

Lot of 24: Richly eclectic collection of books (some quite famous first additions) from Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. There are 7 books, 1 elucidati

This is a signed, soft cover first edition of Memories of Mark Twain and Steve Gillis, by William R. Gillis and published in 1924. Gillis and his brot

This first edition of Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad , New Pilgrim’s Progress has a signature of Adolph Sutro on an inside page. Since it appears it wa

This is a first edition of Following the Equator, an account of that travel published in 1897, the author criticizes racism, imperialism and missionar

This is a rough copy of Mark Twain’s ROUGHING IT. It’s a first edition, published in 1872, fully illustrated by "EMINENT ARTISTS" accordin...

This is a first edition of Mark Twain’s THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT. Published in 1892 by Twain’s own publishing company C.L. Webster Company, this work is

This is a first edition copy of The Gilded Age-A Tale of To-Day, an 1873 novel written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed an

This is a first edition, second state of Mark Twain’s TRAMP ABROAD. Published in 1879 by American Publishing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, this VE

Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a revolutionary typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from de

This is a first edition copy of The Gilded Age-A Tale of To-Day, an 1873 novel written by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed an

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Samuel Clemens of his days as a steamboat pilot before the Civil War and also a travel book, recounting his tri

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Samuel Clemens of his days as a steamboat pilot before the Civil War and also a travel book, recounting his tri

THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT ETC. is a short story written by Mark Twain and published in 1882 by James R. Osgood. In this short story an Indian Elephant

English as She Is Spoke is the common name of a 19th-century book written by Pedro Carolino and falsely additionally credited to Jose de Fonseca which

This is an American first edition of Samuel Clemens’ classic literary work. Originally published in England in December 1884, Clemens and a business p

This is a first edition of Lotos Leaves, a collection of essays, stories and poems written by club members James Peck, C. Florio, Gilbert Burling, Edw

This is a first edition of W.D. Howells’ My Mark Twain Reminiscences and Criticisms, published in 1910 by Harper n Brothers Publishers. Howells, a one

This is a first edition of Mark Twain’s PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC. Originally, Mark Twain`s work was published as a serialization in Harpe

This is a satire by Twain on the mystery novel genre in novella form. In the second arc, Sherlock Holmes was depicted in employing "scientific ...

This is an 1888 collection of short stories compiled by Twain, William Dean Howells and Charles Hopkins Clark. In 1880, George Gebbe suggested to Clem

This is a collection of speeches made at the storied Lotos Club in New York City. Established in 1870 as a gathering place for writers, politicians

This 5.5 x 7.75 x 1.75 red cloth hardbound book carries within its gold embossed cover and lightly foxed pages an impressive history, full of intrigue

This is a 166-page soft cover edition ofa collection of stories by Mark Twain. In this humor anthology the writer discusses children, dangers of lying

The story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers, Oliver and Roderick Montpelier, give the penniless story protagoni

This is a first edition, second state copy of Mark Twain`s 1889 science fiction fairytale, A Yankee in King Arthur`s Court. Illustrated by Daniel Cart

This oil painting on canvas, acquired at an estate sale in 2000, features eight elk fleeing. One of the elk in the foreground has fallen to the ground