Auction Details
<b>AMERICAN INDIAN ART AT AUCTION</b>
<p>Cowan’s is pleased to announce the public auction of a major collection of American Indian Art recently deaccessioned from the Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland, Ohio. Consisting of a wide range of basketry, beadwork, weaponry and textiles from all Native American Culture Areas, most of the items were not officially accessioned into the Western Reserve's collection until 1942. Approximately 400 lots will be offered in this sale, highlighted by a fine group of 19th century Navajo textiles, a group of fine Puebloan polychrome storage jars, Apache ollas, a select group of Plain beadwork and parfleches, and numerous California baskets. A small group of select properties from other consignors rounds out the sale.
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101Paiute Water Bottle,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
with two braided horse hair loop handles at neck and resin covering, 10" high x 7.5" diameter. Deaccessioned from the Western Reserve Hist...
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
104Paiute Water Bottle,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
with traditional cone-shaped bottom covered with thick pitch, with plant fiber loops woven into basket and with braided cotton fabric carrying strap
Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
105Paiute Seed Storage Basket,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
finely woven with an elongated base and tightly constricted neck, with decorations of four woven bands of chevrons, with original woven handles and tu
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
106Paiute Fully Beaded Basket,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
with black and white geometric design decoration, 2.5" high x 4.75" diameter. Excellent.
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
107Paiute Fully Beaded Basket,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
in geometeric pattern with five-point star on base, design in colors of light blue, cobalt, red-orange, orange, and green; 3.75" high x 6"...
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
108Navajo Third Phase Chief's Blanket,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
possibly collected before 1870. Finely woven in natural ivory, shaded dark brown and indigo with dyed red ravelled wool accented by pale green, patte
Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
109Classic Period Navajo Child's Wearing Blanket,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
possibly collected before 1870. Finely and tightly woven in natural ivory, and deep indigo, forest green, red cochineal dyed ravelled wool, with a cen
Estimate : 7,000.00 - 10,000.00
110Late Classic Navajo Serape,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
finely and tightly woven in bright handspun red,ivory,deep indigo, and yellow wool yarns, with a central panel of two terraced rows of zig-zags in ind
Estimate : 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
111Lady's Wearing Manta,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
last half 19th-century. Constructed of end panels of deeply dyed ravelled red wool yarn, with parallel stripes of tightly spun indigo wool woven in a
Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
112Transitional Saltillo Serape,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1800-1820. Ultra-fine textile woven in two vertical panels in red, burgundy red, rose, ivory, green, blue, pale orange, purplish brown, and yel
Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
113Navajo Germantown Banded Weaving,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1880-1900. Finely and tightly woven rug, of Germantown wools of red, black, yellow,green and natural ivory, with alternating weaving bands of s
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
114Chimayo Style Mexican Weaving,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1900. Finely woven of green, red, yellow and salmon colored Germantown wools, in parallel lines, with a geometric central motif, edged by stepp
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
115Navajo Yei Rug,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1940s. With eight yei figures, holding arrows and arrows or rattles in colors of natural cream, brown, red, and green against a greyish-brown ba
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
116Navajo Yei Rug,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1950s. Textile in various blues, oranges and green wools, on greyish-brown ground, with corn plants in turquoise, with original yarn ties in cor
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
117Navajo Regional Room Size Rug,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1960s. A finely and tightly woven room-sized rug, constructed of red, brown, black and natural cream colored wool against a grey background; 10.
Estimate : 3,500.00 - 5,500.00
118Navajo Regional Weaving,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1880-1900. Finely woven rug of handspun wools with end bands of orangish-black, followed by a bands of red, parallel stripes of white, black an
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
119Navajo Transitional Banded Wearing Blanket,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
last quarter 19th-century. Woven in handspun wool yarns of red, grey, blue and orange of natural and commericial dyes. In bands of red, each with two
Estimate : 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
120Navajo Regional Weaving,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1920-30. Woven in red, cream, natural brown and tan against a medium brown ground with a large central cross, linked with four others at corners
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
121Navajo Regional Weaving,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1940s. Woven of red, grey, browns on a natural cream wools on a red ground; 61.5" x 38." Deaccessioned from the Western Reserve His...
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
122Navajo Regional Weaving,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
20th century. Saddle blanket woven in bands of various brown, grey, red and tan wools, with three central bands of triangles; 51.5" x 32."...
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
123Two Navajo Regional Weavings,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
lot of 2, both 20th-century. Includes a saddle blanket of dark brown, black and natural wool against a background of various brown and grey wools; 5...
Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
124Navajo Regional Weaving,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
with cream background and large center serrated diamond in colors of brown center bordered by cream, then heathery grey, then aniline red, then dark b
Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
125Navajo Regional Weavings,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
lot of two, both 20th-century. Includes one with three bands of stepped geometric design in dark brown and aniline red on dark grey-beige background.
Estimate : 350.00 - 450.00
126Navajo Regional Weavings,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
lot of 2, both 20th century. Includes a saddle blanket of diamond motifs woven in red, black, grey and tan wools against a natural cream ground; 26.2
Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
127Navajo Regional Weaving,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1920s. Woven with stacked diamond design in dark brown, light brown, red, and heather brown on cream ground, large central diamond fanning out t
Estimate : 350.00 - 450.00
128Navajo Regional Weavings,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
lot of 2, includes one Chinle style, woven by Dorothy S. Yazzie and purchased at Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, AZ., with original 1" brass ta...
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
129Navajo Regional Weaving,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
retains orginal brass label "Star Services Guaranteed Genuine Navajo Rug 33" and pewter tag with star. Ten stepped edge diamonds, colors ...
Estimate : 450.00 - 550.00
130Navajo Regional Weaving,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
with three wide bands of cream colored serrated diamonds edged in red and indigo blue, center diamonds with additional indigo design, borders in red,
Estimate : 400.00 - 500.00
131Saltillo Textile,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
woven in two panels in colors of scarlet, deep navy, black, and cream, with intricate center design of large-stepped diamond with numerous tiny diamon
Estimate : 400.00 - 750.00
132Zapotec Tapestry,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
wall-hanging or rug, with colorful central motif of an Aztec eagle on a cream field, royal blue borders that bleed into thin stripes along the long s
Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
133Chimayo Rug or Wall Hanging,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
finely woven Chimayo, New Mexico textile, in colors of red, orange, pink, green, purple, yellow, and cream on black ground, with colorful central ste
Estimate : 200.00 - 300.00
134Mexican Textiles,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
lot of 2, includes one woven in two panels and with stepped diamonds and rows of red, pale green, and cream on a brownish red ground, arrow motifs in
Estimate : 300.00 - 450.00
135Mexican Textiles,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
lot of 2, includes a Zapotec tapestry weave textile woven in two panels, with colorful central motif of an Aztec eagle on a cream field, royal blue bo
Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
136Pueblo Belt,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
or sash woven in a geometric pattern in colors of natural cream, and red and green Germantown-style wools, probably Hopi; 120" x 3.5." Dea...
Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
137Pueblo Belt,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
or sash woven in a geometric pattern in colors of green, black, and red Germantown style wool yarns, probably Hopi; 130" x 4." Deaccession...
Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
138Hopi Brocaded Sash,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
circa 1950. Finely woven of cotton warp strings, with weft brocading of purple, red, green and black aniline dyed wool. Two halves,joined at center b
Estimate : 250.00 - 350.00
139Group of Four Navajo Germantown Weavings,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
includes two small weavings on looms, and two small bags; one approximately 19" x 14.5"; other 14" x 13." Bags 13.5" x 1...
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
140Matched Pair of Parfleches,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
Crow or Shoshone, late 19th-century, one of buffalo hide, one of cowhide. With polychrome decorations of a central panel of a green diamond edged in
Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
141Plains Polychrome Parfleche Trunk,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
probably Lakota Sioux, though original Western Reserve accession records indicate Arapahoe. Constructed of a single piece of hide, with each corner s
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
142Plains Polychrome Parfleche Trunk,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
probably Lakota Sioux, though Western Reserve accession records indicate Arapahoe. Constructed of a single sheet of rawhide, the seams originally sew
Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
143Northern Plains Sun Visor,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
possibly Blackfoot, 19th century. Constructed of a single sheet of thick rawhide fringed in both the front and back, and pierced by a series of trian
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
144Plains Tipi Bag,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
probably Lakota Sioux, late 19th-century. Sinew-sewn, with three lanes of translucent red beads with a white core, white, green, yellow and deep blue
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
145Southern Plains Beaded Tipi Bag,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
late 19th century. Constructed of thread and sinew sewn buckskin and heavy canvas, and beaded with three panels of crosses of dark blue, turquoise, a
Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
146Plains Child's Beaded Vest,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
Lakota Sioux, late 19th-century. A fine buckskin vest, constructed of four panels, joined with black cotton thread, the bottom trimmed with faded blu
Estimate : 2,500.00 - 4,500.00
147Plains Beaded Dance Leggings,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
Lakota Sioux, late 19th century. Each constructed of a single central panel of soft deerskin, decorated with typical Lakota triangular elements of gr
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
148Cheyenne Beaded Hide Leggings,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
rubbed with yellow ochre on the body and a green pigment near side seams, with beaded design consisting of 3" bands in colors of cobalt blue, l...
Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
149Northern Plains Dance Cuffs,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
constructed of strips of parfleche, wrapped with dyed porcupine quills in colors of red, black, white, and yellow, parfleche section atop carboard and
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
150Pair of Northern Plains Beaded Hide Armbands,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
each with sinew-sewn beads in colors of pale blue, cobalt, white, translucent gold, and red white-hearts in a geometric design of three crosses, each
Estimate : 150.00 - 300.00
151Sioux Quilled and Beaded Chest Ornament,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
with thirteen rows of white and red porcupine quillwork, with geometric beaded borders in colors of cobalt and medium blue, and with marcasites on a w
Estimate : 800.00 - 1,000.00
152Plains Quilled and Beaded Society Bag,Cowan’s Historic Americana Auctions
probably Cheyenne. Constructed of two sinew-sewn panels of buckskin, both sides beaded and quilled. One panel features a central motif of a quilled b
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00