American Indian Art at Auction

painted by Tyler Silversmith, purchased from Dan Benally, documentation further states that he was a road medicine man from the Navajo Reservation in

lot of 4. Includes a pair of fully beaded, contemporary Cheyenne deerskin moccasins with rawhide soles, with a ground of light blue beads accented wi

possibly hobbyist made, painted with tempera (?), designs of a white hand on sage ground, with tan horse and a yellow sun(?) flowing to a lightning ro

consisting of carved beads and various geometric carved tabs strung on cotton; 17.25" long. Very good to excellent, and with paper label with...

lot of 2. Includes a choker of shells strung on sinew and with twelve leather spacers; 11.5" long; AND a necklace of clipped quills, with som...

T-shaped steatite bowl, inlaid with catlinite diamonds outlined and connected with pewter inlay, 7.75" long, good condition. Wooden stem cover...

lot of 11. Includes a pair of Iroquois beaded vamps for moccasins; 5.5" long; PLUS a pair of loom beaded armbands with a leather backing and w...

lot of 6, includes a Coushatta pine needle lidded basket of a chicken, 4.5" high, PLUS an Eastern Woodlands birch bark napkin ring with porcup...

includes an Iroquois turtle shell rattle, handle wrapped with old style adhesive tape, 17" long, PLUS a Penobscot (?)or Northwest Coast wooden ...

of a spirit image depicting a face and "hair" from which an eagle with an outstretched wing emerges, signed "Shawn Thomas RRHI OHSWEK...

possibly Native American, all steel, with atypical shaped blade for European manufacture, blade with punched line of dots on left side and turkey trac

cotton broadcloth in colors of three blues, two reds, two greens, two yellows, black, and white, with paper label "museum #53.21 sample Seminol...

circa 20th century. With brass inlaid heart on blade, brass ring around pipe bowl, stem with five brass bands; 21.75" long. Deaccessioned fro...

with double-walls and woven with strips of cane, geometric designs in natural and dyed red and purple cane cover entire basket, purchased at a Pow-Wow

lot of 4, includes two Seminole lidded baskets, each woven of coiled grasses held together with colored thread, with a palm fiber base and top on whic

lot of 2, includes a river cane, twill plaited basket made by eastern Cherokee, Qualla Boundary, North Carolina, with brown, tan, and neutral geometri

of rose colored corduroy with blue felt hood trim appliqued and embroidered with vining strawberries, with three leather thong ties down front, lined

lot of 2, includes a newer Tlingit twined baby rattle with shells inside, decorated with brown triangles on a pale ground, with a handle decorated wit

lot of 2. Includes an adult-size pair of sealskin(?) moccasins with a small, beaded clover on top in red, light blue, white, pale green, and crystal.

lot of 3. Includes a hemp backstrap loom belt with two rectangular wool pile panels in rust, yellow, blue, green, black, and white; 5.5" wide ...

lot of 6, includes a pair of hippo tusks, 10" long; PLUS an elephant ivory page turner, 16.75" long; PLUS a bone handled knife with wire i...

lot of 2. Includes a palm wood drum with leather head and strap work, including carrying sling, pedestal shaped, probably early 20th-century; 10&qu...

finely coiled, with simple geometric designs on body and lid, motifs in light brown and dark brown fibers; 4.75" long x 2.25" high. Excel...

fully carved in the round from an elephant tusk, this curving sculpture has its mouth open displaying teeth, with nice detail throughout; 19.5"...

probably early 20th-century. With deep relief scene of crocodile eating a snake, a branching tree with large frog and bird in branch and a fish at ba

lot of 2. Both sub-equatorial African, includes an outstanding trade bead & cowrie shell dance apron with blue, yellow, green, red, white &...

early 20th-century with natural organic dyes in pleasing floral and geometric designs; 38" x 64". Deaccessioned from the Western Reserve H...

lot of 2, both early 20th-century. Both woven over a wood frame, includes one with 2 rows of teeth and palm leaf-covered grip; 27.25;" AND a f...

lot of 7. All have segmented bamboo shafts, each of which has a series of different geometric designs painted in black at segments, possibly clan sym

lot of 3. Includes a nice early 20th-century black palm spear, nice old patina; 72" long; AND 2 polychrome painted hardwood arrow foreshafts f...

Probably early 20th-century, with lizard skin drum head, probably Papuan or Sepik River region. Hand carved in high relief, with anthropomorphic figu

both of which are handmade, early 20th-century, but quite likely not Native American; 62.5" and 60.5" long. Deaccessioned from the Western...

lot of 4. Includes 2 Eastern Woodlands birch bark baskets; one is round with 3 simple star flowers embroidered on sides and 1 on center bottom, 5.5...

lot of 2, Second Annual Report published in 1883 with papers by Frank Hamilton Cushing on the Zuni, by Erminnie A. Smith on the Iroquois, by Henry W.

Second Annual Report published in 1883 with papers by Frank Hamilton Cushing on the Zuni, by Erminnie A. Smith on the Iroquois, by Henry W. Henshaw on

lot of 4. Includes Report for 1908-09 with papers by Matilda Cox Stevenson, "Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians;" by Walter E. Roth on the F...

lot of 2, 20th century, sheepskin stitched with string, painted with tempera in yellow-gold, red, white, black, and turquoise, and decorated with gour