"Christmas Chronicles", 2023 December Live Auction

A carved plain pipestone smoking bowl. It measures a large 6"x 4" and is NOT signed by the artist. Please see photos for more detail.

American Indian pipe tomahawk. The blade is etched bass with a steel cutting edge. The handle is beautifully hand carved. Hawk measures 19', wh...

Two hand carved pipestone bowls. one is a straight angle measuring 3"x 6", the other, a horse head carved piece measuring 3"x 2.5&quo...

This pipestone is of catlinite mined in Minnesota. It is carved with straight edges. It is legend that warring tribes found common ground when mining

Pipe bowls made primarily for the tourist trade at the Pine Ridge Reservation in Montana. They do not appear to be Catlinite (Pipestone), but are very

A Red Mesa Navajo blanket that measures about 40"x 56". There is slight unraveling at one part of the border, an easy repair. Red Mesa bla...

Nice colorful Navajo Yei dancer rug or blanket. Features 4 female dancers with square heads. Made in the modern era. 29x58". Clean condition, n...

This is a big one. Woven Southwestern rug with many bands of color going across the short dimension. 58x187", 1.5" hole and some edge fray...

This is a Southwestern American Indian blanket. It measures 80"x 54" and has some wear issues, three small holes and some border unravelin...

A Native American footed basket vase (Tohono O'odham) with female and animal figures. The basket measures 11"x 6" and shows a very ti...

2 tone Papago woven basket with tan and brown highlight design. 4x8". Arizona

Typical Navajo School baskets possibly made in Santa Fe. The students used Raffia, a non-native product. These baskets all have excellent eye appeal.

Cradle board from an Apache tribe, post-WWII construction, c1940s-1960s. Bent hardwood branches make the outer frame with hand-cut hardwood slats for

Wooden cradle board from the Navajo tribe made from five pieces of traditionally carved cedar(?) joined together by commercially tanned leather ties.

3 small Native American baskets. Spruce root Hoopa with maidenhair fern and possibly bear grass, 1.75x2.5". 3 tone, Nooka, Washington origin, 1...

Tonto Basin Salado red ware bowl. 4.5x9.75". Consignor note states from Tonto Basin, Arizona. No apparent chips or cracks. very good condition...

Tonto Basin Salado red ware bowl. Consignor note states from Tonto Basin, Arizona. 4.25"x9". Reconstructed, missing small pieces on base. ...

Vintage Tarahumara red ware jar with white triangular design around neck. 12.5x15", base has several chipped, worn areas. Arizona Jim &...

Caldo pot with flared lip. Exterior etching design from Little River, Arkansas. Some wear along shoulder, no apparent chip or cracks. 4.75x5". ...

Vintage Caddo pot with traditional etched hashmark design. Flared lip. From Arkansas/Texas areas. Dating back to approx. 800 to 1200 A.D. 5"x5....

Ancient etched Caddo jar with 4 notched rib designs, evenly spaced around sides of jar. Etched liine between. 4.25"x5". Lp chip, no visibl...

Reconstructed red ware medium bowl. 3.25"x8.5". Reconstructed, missing small shards, lip chip. New Mexico Gary Bracken Collection

Three museum quality pottery pieces by Norman Red Star. These pieces measure 6"x 6", with two seed bowls measuring 2"x 3" and ...

Ancient Caddo flared jar, deeply incised. c. 1400-1600, Red River Drainage area, 5"x5.5". Professionally reconstructed. Texas

This lot holds eleven pieces of Anasazi (Ancient Puebloan) pottery shards. There are four pieces in the 3in .size with black on white ware decorate

5 pieces of brown and cream glazed pottery by Ella Irving. 4 are signed on the bottom E Irving, Pine Ridge Sioux. c. 1930-40. The small piece without

Ancient Caddo pot with small handles and fingernail type impressions around pot. 3.5" x 5.5". No apparent chips or cracks.

These are seven riker boxes of pottery shards from Butler County, Kansas and from Kay County, Oklahoma; they're not far apart. Most pieces are n...

This lot has several pieces of shards: a gray shard with two color clay at 4 in.; a fragment of black on cream white, inside design primitive artwork

This lot holds a number of pottery shards and stones that show human manufacture or construction. The pottery shards are unique to this area by both d

1.) 4.25 x 5" signed, on the bottom it is marked: Birdell Vine Flower Santa Clara Reservation 5 2017. 2.)2.75 x 4.25 on the bottom is marked S...

This lot holds over 30 pieces of pottery shards from the Bracken collection that have not been cataloged by location. There is black on white, black o

This collection of points from Alabama are over 70 pieces from 1.5 in/ 38 mm to 3.5 in./ 89 mm. There is one Sandia point, several Adena points, one K

This display case holds over 50 pieces of points, knives and tools unlabeled from the Bracken collection. Several are of chalcedony which takes on a w

This lot is from Arkansas with over 290 points. There are 21 bird points; 30 medium points from Montgomery Co. Wells points, Big Creek or Calf creek d

This riker box contains over 100 pieces of projectile points from the Benton, Arkansas area. All are fragments and pick-up finds under one inch in siz

This lot of six points have have been identified to Arkansas or nearby in Missouri. 1) a 5 in./ 127 mm scraper that shows flaking on one side only

This lot of 17 points include obsidian from Modoc County, mahogany obsidian, some Eklo side notches and one Cottonwood Triangle. Two points are from c

This Scottsbluff 1 blade is 4.1 in./ 104 mm in length and made of mahogany obsidian. A truly rare find. Age 9500 to 7000 years BP late Paleo-Indian p

This collection of points is entirely from Colorado; over 680 points in all. Most points have been individually cataloged in the Bracken collection. T

This group has eight points; a drill a 3.25 in./ 83 mm; a Dalton-greenbrier point; a Dalton point; several Hardin points; a Lange style point; and two

This display has over 100 points from Henderson and Union Counties Kentucky. All are from .75 in. to 3 in. in length. There are Archaic Side Notches,

This lot holds three rather large stone hammer tools. The largest is 9 in. at 6 lbs. , and two at 6 in. One had been found in two pieces and now repa

This collection of points is from the Great Falls area of Montana. There are 23 points in all. Each one is carefully detailed by style and location fo

This lot contains several obsidian points, a bead, and scraper tools from Nevada. In the center is a blue bead found in Esmeralda County, Nevada; a bl

This lot has over 250 pieces in all. Fourteen (14) bird points; spectacular bird points from Kay County, Oklahoma. Displayed in small riker boxes. Spe

This lot contains points from Kay County, Oklahoma that includes at least three points of the Hardin style, one Gary point, and one knife with great s

This 4.25 in./ 108 mm obsidian knife was found in Lake County, Oregon. Obsidian with one side beautifully patinated. The style is thought to be the C

This collection of points are from the Columbia River Basin, most are bird points with one Eastgate Barbed point, a Gatecliff Stemmed point, a Snake R

This cache of small points, sometimes referred to as bird points, are from the Columbia River basin from three individual sites. All Oregon finds that

This lot has over 50 bird points collected from the Columbia River area. Some are quite small and a wonder as to how they were made. There are a good

This lot has two (2) mule ear triangle points from the Columbia River basin; one is 1.5 in./ 38 mm of black chert, and the other is 2.25 in./ 57mm. Th

This collection of 10 points are from the Columbia River area or western Oregon. The largest in this group is lanceolate at 2.75 in./ 70 mm from the C

This cache of points include three Columbia Mule Ear triangles, two lanceolates, side notches, and many other styles; 19 in all. All are medium to sma

This lot has over 25 points from the Columbia River Basin as well as Eastern Oregon. Over 25 points in all. There is a Humboldt Concave; a Gatecliff;

This riker box contains 19 points from southern Oregon and are largely obsidian points. All follow the Great Basin designs. 13 are bird points; the la

This display has fifteen points from the Columbia River that includes both Oregon and Washington states. There is an Elko Side Notch that has smokey o

This lot holds 34 bird points from the Columbia River near present day Umatilla. There are a significant number of styles and colored materials used f

This lot of four points were collected from McLennan and Bell counties in Texas; geographic neighbors. They have the style and characteristics of Abas

The Columbia River provides us with these four points. A Gatecliff point at 1.75 in/ 44 mm; a Shaniko point at 1.75 in./ 44 mm; another Shaniko point

This lot has two beautiful examples of Washington points. One is a Priest Rapid point at 1.5 in./ 38 mm and the other is a cascade knife at 1.75 in./

This group has a spectacular lanceolate at 5 in./ 127 mm from Chautauqua County, Kansas. This specific piece is bevel edged on the left side only, on

This collection of medium points are from Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma; 29 points in all. There are largely Langtry, and Gary points of spectacula

This unlabeled group of over 30 points is a treasure from the Bracken collection with a large lanceolate in the center at 8 in. It has weak shoulders

This lot has seven points found between Texas and Oklahoma. There is a Lange point, Pedernales pt., a Dart point and a serrated side notch. From the B

This lot has over 40 points from both North and South Dakota. There are 16 tube beads that are hand drilled and appear to be of bone. The bone used ha

This group has six points: including a drill; a Harrell pint; one Flint Creek style point, and five more at 1.5 in. There is a large chopper or stemme

Lakota war clubs (3). Handmade by two different artists. Two are by Emerson Elk (1957-2020). One measures 19" in length, has a doeskin grip an...

These are three two grooved stone axes, 4.5 in., 5. in, 5.5 in. in length. All are granite, site location is unknown. Early Archaic Period 9,000-8,0

This boatstone is red granite that has been shaped and polished at 3.5 in. /89 mm. Boatstones were made to add mass to the atlatl shaft, to increase t

This rather large stone axe is grooved 3/4 with a flat back. It is 8 in./ 203 mm and weighs 4 lbs 6oz. A near perfect specimen from Clark County, Mis

This bicave stone is one of the largest from the Bracken collection. The stone is 4.5 in. X 2 in. at 2 lbs. 9 oz. It was found near Oolagah, Ok. It

This boatstone has been worked on all surfaces. It appears to have been made of red clay at 3.25 in. / 83 mm 2.2 oz. The stone has been incise carved

This double-bitted stone axe was found at the Markham Ferry site, now Lake Hudson in Mayes County, Oklahoma. The stone is 4.25 in./ 108 mm and 8 oz. A

This is a double-bitted stone axe found in Mayes County, Oklahoma. It is 5 in./127 mm in length, 3.5 in. wide at 13 oz. Beautifully shaped for large w

This double-bitted stone axe is from Muskogee County, Oklahoma at 4.5 in. in length and 8.7 oz. In the spectacular bowtie shape. Typically, the center

This rather large piece is 6.5 in/ 165 mm and weighs 1 lb. 5 oz. It appears to be a spade or hoe tool for agricultural work associated with north-east

This cache of milling stones or "slabs" are from Mayes County, Oklahoma with the exception of one from Chariton County, Missouri. All have...

This lot holds about 12 pieces of aquasized wood- wood that has been replaced by stone mineral deposits. All are 4 in. or smaller with a rich dark cof

This cache of celt stones are from: Ohio, Oklahoma, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Arkansas. Forteen stones in all, some polished more than others. From the

This collection of grooved axes range from 4.0 to 4.75 in. in length. THere are five with 3/4 groove and five with a full 360 groove. There are three

This collection of grooved axes are quite unique; all are between 3.5 in. to 4. in. in length (89 mm to 102 mm). 8 count. There are: 4 from Illinois,

Choice old Haida Raven rattle, 6" x 18.5" x 3", carved, painted (worn) wood, twine wrapped handle. This is a classic Raven rattle, po...

15 large animal hide scrapers, about 7.5 lbs. Gary Bracken Collection

This stone is a pulping plane and every archaic period chef needed one. It is a tool for rubbing back and forth on a flat surface to pulverize grains

This stone axe tool is 5in. in length, It is grooved 3/4 round with the remaining edge polished flat. 1 lb 10 oz. From the Bracken collection. Please

This stone axe tool is 5 in. in length at 1lb 8 oz. Grooved completely around. Marked "130" in paint from a previous collection. Current...

This collection of six stone celts vary from 2.5 in to just under 4 in. in length. The lot also includes one grooved axe at roughly the same size (3 i

Basalt oblong stone with central groove. One end is blunt and shows wear, other end is shaped into an edge. Could have been mounted on some sort of ha

Two basalt and one granitic stone scrapers of unknown origin. These may have been handed down from generation to generation. One is labeled St. Louis

About 50 or more Native American artifacts book. About 49 lbs. Oklahoma, Spiro Mound, Eastern Iowa, Missouri, Eskimo, Southeast, Missouri and lots mor

6 Hardbound and 2 softbound, large-format "coffee table" type books. Beautiful, illustrated work all with Native American subject matter. ...

15 Books, 6 Museum Published booklets, 15 Museum exhibit brochures. Included in this collection is The Wild West Box Set published in 2000 with The Am

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This lot has eight volumes of "Who's Who in Indian Artifacts" various authors and Ben Thompson Editor. There is the first volume by Wa...

Alaska tour book from 1894. It's called Raymond's Vacation Excursions. It's a 128-page softcover book that measures 6"x 5" and...

Group of about 20 Alaska travel brochures. About half are vintage brochures from the 1920s-1940s. The other half are more modern from the 1960s-2000s.

Very rare Alpine State Highway booklet, 14pp with foldout 12x8.5" map with crease tears. Photo of Silver Mt. on cover. Verso and small map wate...

About 20 interesting Sacramento pamphlets. Henderson Longton Fruit Co., Lee's Sacramento Guide, the Key to Sacramento, 2x 1922 Days of '49, ...

c. 1870 pen and ink drawn map of Smartsville, Carey's Gold Diggings, Mt. Diablo Meridian, Park's Bar, several unnamed mining claims etc. 11x...