"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