Alan Kessler Gallery
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #1367325 (stock #0-ka001)
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Case mask with one half face painted green and one half red, tubular mouth; no ears, blossom on one side and tuft of red hair and feathers on the other. Douglas fir ruff. Kilt, sash, fox skin, and green moccasins. Body painted any common katsina style. Carris staff tipped with feathers, and a rattle. Appears in regular katsina dance. -Fewkes, 1894, 1903; Stephen, 1936. c.1880, 11 1/2" height x 3 1/2" width, a rare 19 century katsina doll in original paint with minor paintloss legal feathe...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1920 item #1367344 (stock #0-ka000)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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White face mask with secular eyes hachured areas or red spots on the cheeks. Butterfly and feathers on the tableta. Earrings below the tableta. Costume may be a white and embroidered, ceremonial robe and a kilt worn like a blouse. A black dress with a yellow maiden's shawl. The feet are wearing moccasins. Fewkes, 1983. Steven, 1936. Earl Kennard, 1938. 15 1/2" height x 4 1/4" width, c.1920
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1920 item #1367728 (stock #0-ka024)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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The rarer Katsinas of the some of the Rio Grande Pueblos are stylistically similar to Hopi figures, though often made of pine wood. Hopi Katsinas are made of cottonwood and more simply painted. This doll has great provenance: Dorothy Louise Luhrs, PhD. She taught at UNM School of Field Research. She was born in 1910 and she died in 1972. This doll was purchased from her estate and sold by Case Auctions, Memphis, Tennessee. c.1920, 14" height x 2 3/4" width, 9 1/2" width of tableta
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1940 item #1370044 (stock #J011)
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Navajo ring with green turquoise stone. Coin silver. Ca. 1940-1950, Size 7
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1930 item #1370045 (stock #J012)
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Zuni cluster ring with 17 turquoise stones set in a silver mounting. ca. 1930-1940, Size 8-8 1/2
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1930 item #1370046 (stock #J013)
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Navajo solid single shank ring set in a silver bezel with floral engraved sides ca. 1930-1940, Size 7
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1940 item #1370047 (stock #J014)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Navajo sterling silver and turquoise ring ca. 1940-1950, Size 6 1/2
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1930 item #1370051 (stock #J015)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Men's Navajo ring. Coin silver. Letters 'D' AND 'J' engraved in the space at the back. ca. 1930-1940, size 7 1/2-8
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1940 item #1370053 (stock #J016)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Silver ring with cast single shank. Sterling silver. ca. 1940-1950, Size 7 1/2-8
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Handiwork : Pre 1920 item #1370465 (stock #J017)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Men's Navajo turquoise single shank square blue turquoise ring. It has a square bezel with a sliver twisted wire attachment. ca. 1920-30, Size 7-7 1/2
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1920 item #1375748 (stock #0-k058c)
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Green case mask, mouth a beak or tube, blossoms and tufts of red hair for ears, band of red yarn across forehead. Douglas fir ruff. Kilt, wedding sash, fox skin, red Navajo-style moccasins. Body paint pink and yellow. Carries a rattle. Appears in regular katsina dance. Fewkes, 1903, Pl. XXXV, XXXVI, figures other Navajo Katsinas which have been taken from Navajo ceremonies and are said not to be Hopi. Fewkes, 1894, 1903; Earl and Kennard, 1938. Provenance: Wendell Gates, Height: 11 1/4", Width p...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1920 item #1388166 (stock #0-ka0)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Case mask with one half face painted green and one half red, tubular mouth; no ears, blossom on one side and tuft of red hair and feathers on the other. Douglas fir ruff. Body painted any common katsina style. Carries staff tipped with feathers, and a rattle. Appears in regular katsina dance. Fewkes, 1894, 1903; Stehphen, 1936. ca.1920 5" Height X 1.5" Width Provenance: Dorothy Louise Luhrs. PhD. 1910-1972, UNM, School of Field Research
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1930 item #1392098 (stock #0-ka0a)
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Reddish brown sack mask to which are fastened three gourds, one on top and one over each ear, and painted reddish brown. Rag ruff. Kilt made from a woman's old dress. Body painted with red-brown clay. He carries a feather and a rattle. Koyemsi is the most common Hopi clown. He appears in Mixed Katsina Dances and sometimes a group of Koyemsi appear in a dance of their own. At First Mesa they are said to sing Zuni songs. Height 10" X Width at the shoulders 3", ca.1930-40, A hand-loomed sash, Ala...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #1394750 (stock #0-k058b)
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Fully worked front and back as well as across the unseamed arms, fringed cuffs and bottom perimeter. The arm consists of Germantown yarn and the red is unraveled flannel. Length 25" c. 1870 "After an intensive search, less than a hundred examples have been located which can be considered as representing the type of work produced previous to the 1880's. To these may be added a few owned privately and thus not listed. From fleeting glimpses and hearsay, it is believed that perhaps a dozen ...
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #1397000 (stock #0-k057b)
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Case mask painted black with green mark on forehead representing a snipe track and white moon symbols on cheeks, snout with teeth, wildcat skin ruff. Velvet shirt, white trousers. Carries a knife. Chaveyo may come at any time during the spring months if Hopi children are particularly bad. "The boogie man will get you if you don't watch out." Voth, 1901; Fewkes, 1903; Stephen, 1936; Nequatewa, 1948, p. 60. Provenance available. Chaveyo with half moon marks is from First Mesa. Height 11 1/...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Trade : Pre 1920 item #1400176 (stock #FH001)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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A deck of antique Fred Harvey "Souvenir Playing Cards - The Great Southwest" circa 1911-1912. Full deck (52 cards plus a Joker and a Map). Each card displays a different photograph, including destinations, places, and native people of the Southwest. The back of each card shows a scene of Indians on horseback. Golden-edged cards. Almost mint Condition.
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1920 item #650319 (stock #0-ka005)
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A Zuni Polychromed Wood Kachina Group, depciting three Koyemsi, or Mud Heads, of classic articulated form and decoration, one, carrying Kianakwe Shikan’ona, White Kianakwe of the East on its back, dressed in a cloth manta, the white painted case mask with concentric bands in numerous colors with white dotted details, the other, carrying a bowl in his hand; possibly a depiction of the Kianakwe Ceremony. Heights: from 10" tp 13.75".
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653754 (stock #X06)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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36" x 32" x 13", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.