Alan Kessler Gallery
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #662451 (stock #161)
Alan Kessler Gallery
$745.00
Cast Iron Polychrome Figure. Green and black pigments. Some rust, paint loss. Otherwise good condition for age. c.1880-1890. 10 1/2"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #667776 (stock #166)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Sioux beaded hide tobacco bag. Quilled and cone suspensions. Quilled slatted panel. Green and ochre glass bead fringe. 35 1/2" by 5 1/2".
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #667787 (stock #167)
Alan Kessler Gallery
$3950.00
Early over-sized beaded hide pouch with real beads (next step down from pony beads). Buffalo or thick elk hide. 11" by 8".
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #1123399 (stock #168)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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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).
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #1077339 (stock #201)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Circa 1875-1880. Depicting a warrior killing or scalping another man, the warrior holding an elaborate war shield with long feather decorated panel hanging from its center and followed by his horse. The word "Owl" above. On the reverse is written, "This drawing was from a book shown by Robert Miller Gallery N.Y. 1970's. I think it is Southern Cheyenne. George Terasaki sold the book to Miller. Modern artists like David Hockney and Janet Fish received drawing from this book...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #1085337 (stock #203)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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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.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #1029312 (stock #213)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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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.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #1119102 (stock #601)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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A New Mexican straw-overlay black-stained pine document box circa 1850. Provenance: Al Luckett Collection, sold at Sotheby's "American Furniture and Decorative Arts from Spain's Northern Colonial Frontier", New York, Thursday January 15, 1998, Lot No. 39. Extremely Fine Condition considering the age. 16 1/8" long, 10 3/8" wide, 7 1/4" high.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #793682 (stock #633361)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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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.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1920 item #873334 (stock #633366)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Navajo Turquoise and Silver Cross, mid-twentieth century c.1950. Sand cast, silver cross with central turquoise stone set in silver bezel. Heavy casting. 2 1/2" L x 1 3/4" W.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #724286 (stock #650041)
Alan Kessler Gallery
Price on Request
Rare rocker engraved Navajo bug spoon. File inscribed "Gallup / NM" in the bowl. 4" in length. Extremely rare depiction of what looks like centipedes. Price on request.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #842707 (stock #655879)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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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
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #764533 (stock #667774)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Rare Mandan Beaded and Quilled Hide Tobacco Bag. Tin cone and red feather suspensions, hide fringe. Size: 26" length x 6.25" width. Excellent condition. Circa 1870 - 1880. Provenance: Paul Dyke, Artist, Rimrock, AZ
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #749659 (stock #667774)
Alan Kessler Gallery
$6995.00
Southern Cheyenne Rare Dispatch Case. Circa 1880-1890. Sinew sewn, yellow orchre pigment, tin cones suspensions, hide soft and supple. No apparent bead loss. The reverse hide, showing drawings of that were never finished, may have been recycled from an earlier southern plains piece. Measures 10 1/2" by 9 1/4" without suspensions; and 14" at the longest end suspensions.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #1398166 (stock #B000)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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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"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #1101541 (stock #B003)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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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.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1837 VR item #1398605 (stock #B100)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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A pair of early 19th century beaded deer hide moccasins. Seed beads, deer skin, clear beads, silk ribbon. The moccasins are probably from Niagara Falls area. c. 1830-40 Length 9" Provenance: Owned by Thomas Wistar (1798-1876) a Quaker, who was commissioned by President Grant to arrange treaties with Indian tribes. His papers are in the collection of Haverford College. Sale 1262 Lot 167, Freeman's Auction House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 18, 2006.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1900 item #1397829 (stock #B99)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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With a buffalo parfleche hard sole. Small seed bead. In pink, green, brown, and greasy yellow. Peco beaded black beads surrounding a red silk edging. c. 1860-70 Length 10 1/4" X Width 3 3/8"