Northwest coast model totem pole c.1910-1920. Vancouver BC inscribed on the back, "Sam" inscribed on the front. 12 1/4" h, cedar. Minor wood loss, minor paint loss. Otherwise good condition. $275.00

Rare Kiowa belt with 10 German silver conchos on a harness leather strip with buckskin tie suspensions and rectangular cutouts on each end of the leather strip. Belt is 34" long x 3" wide. Conchos are 2 7/8" in diameter. One Concho has different design elements from the other 9. Most likely a man's belt. Circa 1900.

DESCRIPTION: Pipestone (Catlinite) is the sacred red clay stone that American Indians used for trade and for making beads or ceremonial pipes. It is found in only a few places in the world, with the best quality pipestone coming from mines in southwestern Minnesota. Pipestone ranges in color from pale pink, to brick, to blood red. Since pipestone is smooth to the touch, can be easily carved and takes a high polish, it was highly valued by Native Americans...

Sioux Beaded Hide Child's Moccasins on hide with green trade cloth decoration. Excellent condition. The inner soles are buffalo painted parfleches. c.1900 Length 4 3/4" X Width 2 1/4"

This is a Crow parfleche made of raw hide, used as storage containers. c. 1890-1900, 25.25" x 11.5"

Hopi Hemis Kachina doll with tablita. Circa 1880-1890. Minor paint and wood loss. Dimensions: 14 1/4" tall.

A large, decorated, Navajo coil basket; 13 1/2" diameter, 4" tall Excellent condition with no flaws.

A Whalebone Harpoon Point. Tapering to a fine tip. Yaghan, Tierra Del Fuego 19thC. Length; 13 1/8" (33.3 cm). Condition; good patina. Minute chip to tip and side of barb

A pair of Sioux buffalo hide moccasins circa 1880. With dark blue, red, white hearts, and green in geometric square and triangular designs. Excellent condition.

Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace, circa 1930-40. Size 13 1/2 inches per side. Provenance: Belonging to Dorcas Trilostson Crawford, Albuquerque, NM. Decended in the family. Price: $5,950.

A rare Arapahoe beaded Strike-A-lite with christian crosses from Ghost Dance period. C. 1890 4 1/2" length 3 1/2" Width at the widest point

A rare large pictorial beaded Iroquois animal whimsey, circa 1890. Depicting what looks like a mythological deer or elk figure. A great folk art piece. One of the largest and most spectacular whimseys known. With a great sculptural relief, and beaded in white, blue, green, copper, light tan, numerous beaded suspensions with tubular beads, sequins. Excellent Condition. 11 1/8" wide; 12 1/2" tall; 15 3/8" tall (w/suspensions).

A coin silver cigar band with a primitive, stamped, coin-silver button ring, circa 1890-1900. Similar examples of this button can be found in, "Indian Silver Jewelery of the Southwest 1868-1930," by Larry Frank. Page 66, item 68 shows a very similar set of six stamped buttons with a high domed centers circa 1890s, found at Hopi in 1911.

Hopi Polychrome Wood Rügan Kachina Doll *Rügan Rasp Kachina -A class of male kachinas that come in groups, accompanied by the Corn Maidens, who play on rasp musical instruments. There are said to be various types who have the same songs but my informants could not name or describe them all. The feather headdress made of four eagle feathers, two projecting horizontally above each ear, seems to be characteristic of all kachinas called Rügan...

Fine example of Woodlands Indian beadwork, in the form of a Glengarry cap, with heavy beading depicting flowers, foliage and geometric lines, with additional sewn thread embroidery, on velvet backing, heavy cloth interior, ca 1850. Measures 11 1/2" on each side of cap at bottom edge, 23" around, and is 4" deep, the top panel is 5" wide. The beadwork is found throughout many of the Northeaster Woodlands Indian tribes, including the Iroquois, Wabanaki, Mohawk, and Tuscarora, and these caps wer...

Each with a hard parfleche soles, sinew sewn in dark blue, white, greasy yellow, and pink against a white lazy stitched ground. Showing a typical lightning pattern. c. 1890 Length 9 1/4" X Width 3 1/2"

Circa 1840-1850. Buffalo hide quiver with traces of red and green pigment. Contains seven arrow shafts, four with metal points. Ash bow with original animal hair and fiber string. Provenance: Mordecai Thomas Bertram (1843-1904) collected c. 1860-1870 on the Sauk and Fox reservation, then descended within the family.

Hopi Polychromed cylinder doll c.1880-90. With pop-eyes, snout, hands carved in relief, red stripe, red dots, green copper carbonate case mask. 5" in height. George Blitz collection, New York