Auction Details
Over 800 rare and museum quality items gathered from several Vancouver and Vancouver Island estates featuring: Over 800 rare and museum quality items gathered from several Vancouver and Vancouver Island estates featuring over 150 fine old Northwest coastal and interior baskets: Thompson River and Fraser Rivers, Lillooet, fully imbricated storage and trinket baskets, Nuu-chah-nulths and Makahs. Beadwork of all description including a Haida headpiece, 19th C. octopus bag, beaded belts, dance aprons, bag and moccasins including a pair of finely beaded Cree moccasins Ex Niagara Falls Museum collection, Woodlands beaded leggings, a collection of mountain goat, sheep and wood ladles, finely carved argillite totems. Exceptional wood carvings: 19th C. bent wood storage box, 19th & 20th C. model totems, superb 19th C. double frog grease dish, totemic fireplace surround, old cradle boards, 19th C. Northwest coast rattle, carved masks and totems from the Salmon House Restaurant collection including three masks by Jack James, rare 19th C. carved bone amulets, several Haida carved coin silver and gold bracelets, Robert Davidson silkscreens, stone maul and arrowheads, catlinite pipes, Southwest kachinas and pottery, trade beads, jewelry and much more….