All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #1491778 (stock #dr13119)
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19th Century American Native Indian Iron Pipe Tomahawk Head

It is 6.7 inches (17 cm) in length by 2.65 inches (6.75 cm) wide. It is 0.9 lb.

It is tarnished and has rust, oxidation, pitting, and surface wears (as seen in the photos).


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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Handiwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1490904
An attractive red terracotta stamp seal, carved in deep relief with a cruciform pattern, Pre-Columbian, Nicoya, Linea Vieja, 1st. mill. AD

Well-made in a wonderful condition. Almost stone-like density of this red ceramic.

Size: 43 mm. tall and c. 47-48 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Extremely Fine.

Ex. German Private Collection and ex a Dorotheum auctionsale in 1980, where it was purchased!
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1490772
A fine large ceramic vessel - a globular jar with negative resist pattern in black on red, Ecuador or Columbia, pre 1000 AD.

Size: 23 cm. wide and 14 cm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with a tiny pin-hole in the side, preserved decoration.

Provenance: Inger and Ebbe Gotzche Frederiksen, Espergærde, Denmark...
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In orange ware with decorative red line at the rim.

Size c. 20 cm. in diameter.

Condition: Nice Very fine and intact. With some glue below the base from a previous mounting.

Comes with a Ralf Kotalla TL test from 1991!

Ex. Old German private Collection, aquired in the 1980s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1490740
A large and attractive globular jar of blackware, Chimú c. 1200-1400 AD.

The vessel comes with a TL test from Ralf Kotallas lab.

Ex. Old German collection from the 1980s. Height: c. 21,5 cm.

Condition: Good Very fine, intact.

Ex. Old German collection from the 1980s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1490739
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Size: 18-19 cm. tall and 18-19 cm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine, intact with two very small holes repaired.

Ex. Old German collection from the 1980s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1490554
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1490320
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Condition: Choice.

Ex Old German Private Collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1490264
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Mainly Mexico, Maya, but could be others as well. Incl. a lovely head of a wrinkled old man with big ears.

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Ex. Austrian Private Collecyion, c. 1960-1990.
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Size: 44 mm. and 35 mm. tall.

Ex. Old German private Collection.
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Well-made in a wonderful condition. Almost stone-like density of this red ceramic.

Size: 57 mm. tall and 40 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Extremely Fine.

Ex. German Private Collection and ex a Dorotheum auctionsale in 1980, where it was purchased!
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1489516
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Well-made in a wonderful condition and large. Almost stone-like density of this orange-red ceramic.

Size: 61 mm. tall and 48 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Extremely Fine.

Ex. German Private Collection and comes with a picture of a receipt from a Dorotheum auctionsale in 1980, where it was purchased!
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Size: 57 mm. tall and 48 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Extremely Fine.

Ex. German Private Collection and comes with a picture of a receipt from a Dorotheum auctionsale in 1977, where it was purchased!
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1489479
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1489478
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : South American : Pre 1900 item #1489115
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Ancient Artifacts
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Zuni fetishes are small carvings made from primarily stone but also shell, fossils, and other materials by the Zuni people...
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The carvings are cut and polished in one transperant light blue-green stone. The massive turtle probably have had two legs made later and (re)-attached?

Zuni fetishes are small carvings made from primarily stone but also shell, fossils, and other materials by the Zuni people...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre AD 1000 item #1487257
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Zuni fetishes are small carvings made from primarily stone but also shell, fossils, and other materials by the Zuni people...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486438
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486437
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The three points carved in a better silex type of stone. They can probably be dated to the 2nd.-1st. millenium BC. Hard material and amazing that they could manage to make such refined artifacts of this size. With finding place to St. Francis Coun...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486436
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486435
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The three points are carved in silex and other stone. They can probably be dated to the 2nd.-1st. millenium BC. Very hard material and amazing that they could manage to make such refined artifacts...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486426
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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1486388
A wonderful sturdy cloakpin of silver with the substantial finial in gold, Chimú-Inca period, ca. 12th.-15th. century AD.

Size 14,1 cm. and weighing 10 grams.

German Private Collection, aquired between 1975-1985.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486382
A lot of 4 knapped silex points from the private collection of P.F. Wulff. We're selling this very old collection in smaller lots to give everyone a chance to own a small piece of the pre-historic Americas!

Lovely lot with some very elaborately knapped types in different kinds of fine stones. The lot includes types from c. 8.000 BC or earlier to perhaps as late as 2000 BC, more research is needed to accurately date each point. The Paleo-Indian knapping skills are among the highest we...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1486380
A lot of 5 knapped silex points from the private collection of P.F. Wulff. We're selling this very old collection in smaller lots to give everyone a chance to own a small piece of the pre-historic Americas!

Lovely lot with some very elaborately knapped types in different kinds of fine stones. The lot includes early types from c. 10.000 BC or earlier to perhaps as late as 2000 BC, more research is needed to accurately date each point. The Paleo-Indian knapping skills are among the hig...