American Indian Art at Auction

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<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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Fine Plains Pipe Tomahawk,196 - Fine Plains Pipe Tomahawk,
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the head of cast steel, 8.25" long, 3.25" at its widest point, with a 1.5" tall bowl. The stem 22.25" in length, with deep file...
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Estimate : 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
 
 
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Fine Plains Pipe Tomahawk,197 - Fine Plains Pipe Tomahawk,
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with cast steel head, 9.5" long, 4" at its widest point, with a 1.75" long pipe bowl. The stem 24" long, deeply file branded, w...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Fine Plains Pipe Tomahawk,198 - Fine Plains Pipe Tomahawk,
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late 19th-century, with a cast pewter head; 9.75" in total length, 4" at its widest point, with a 2" tall pipe bowl. The wooden stem...
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Estimate : 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
 
 
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Arapahoe Bow, Case & Quiver199 - Arapahoe Bow, Case & Quiver
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probably late 19th-century. Includes a recurved, sinew-backed bow 43.0" in length, with the front edge retaining traces of decoration done in ...
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Estimate : 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
 
 
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Plains Style Sinew-Backed Bow,200 - Plains Style Sinew-Backed Bow,
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with original sinew-wrapped grip & bowstring, wonderful old patina, museum accession number inked on wood face; 45.5" long. Deaccessioned f...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Yankton Sioux Bow201 - Yankton Sioux Bow
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slightly recurved hardwood bow with sinew bowstring, leather wrap at top and museum accession number inked on leather. Bow is 49.25" long. Deac...
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Yankton Sioux Bow202 - Yankton Sioux Bow
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Carved hardwood child's bow with sinew bowstring, old museum accession number inked on. Bow 22" long. Deaccessioned from the Western Reserv...
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Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
 
 
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Sioux Beaded Hide Knife Sheath,206 - Sioux Beaded Hide Knife Sheath,
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with rawhide back and beadwork on front in colors of pale green, cobalt, and red-orange on a white ground, in designs of stylized projectile points an
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Northern Plains-Style Knife and Beaded Hide Case,207 - Northern Plains-Style Knife and Beaded Hide Case,
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knife with metal blade, handle fashioned from a tibia decorated with crude cross-hatching and lines; thread-sewn case with sinew-sewn beadwork, front
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,208 - Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,
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with bi-pointed pecked and polished quartzite 7.75" head, mounted on a 28.75" wooden shaft covered with a sinew-sewn rawhide covering, wit...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,209 - Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,
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with bi-pointed, polished 5" quartzite head, bound in a 29" wooden handle covered with sheath of sinew-sewn polished rawhide. With great, ...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Plains Buffalo Horn and Rawhide War Club,210 - Plains Buffalo Horn and Rawhide War Club,
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with a bi-pointed 9" long head of two conjoined horns, likely buffalo, mounted in a 22.5" wooden handle covered with a sheath of sinew-sew...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,211 - Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,
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with polished limestone bi-pointed head, 5.5" long, bound in a wooden, 26" handle covered with a sinew-sewn rawhide sheath. Museum access...
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Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,212 - Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,
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with bi-pointed 5" long polished quartzite head, bound in a 29.5" wooden handle covered with a polished, sinew-sewn rawhide sheath. The h...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,213 - Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,
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with bi-pointed quartzite head, 6.0" in length, bound in a 27" wooden handle covered with both sinew-sewn rawhide and thread-sewn split an...
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,214 - Plains Stone and Rawhide War Club,
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with bi-pointed polished limestone head, circa 6.5" in length, bound in a 14" wooden handle covered with split, sinew-sewn leather sheath....
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Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Plains Stone and Rawhide War Clubs,215 - Plains Stone and Rawhide War Clubs,
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lot of 2, both damaged. Includes a polished 5" quartzite head mounted on a wooden, rawhide-covered 31" handle; a nearly fully beaded 27&qu...
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Estimate : 200.00 - 400.00
 
 
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Lakota Sioux Beaded Hide Moccasins,216 - Lakota Sioux Beaded Hide Moccasins,
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circa 1900. Each with rawhide soles made of pieces of polychrome painted parfleche. Mocs with sinew-sewn beadwork in colors of cobalt blue, red white
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Estimate : 600.00 - 800.00
 
 
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Lakota Sioux Beaded Hide Moccasins,217 - Lakota Sioux Beaded Hide Moccasins,
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each with sinew-sewn beads in colors of red, light blue, cobalt blue, white, and green, each with small checkered design on top and connecting "...
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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Lakota Sioux Beaded Hide Moccasins,218 - Lakota Sioux Beaded Hide Moccasins,
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each with sinew-sewn beadwork in colors of cobalt blue, orange, red, translucent green and, medium blue on white background, designs of four stylized
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Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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