Alan Kessler Gallery
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #633362 (stock #SP01)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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4.5" Navajo Profile Spoon c. 1895-1900
All Items : Vintage Arts : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #633696 (stock #SP02)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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4.5" Has the word “Navajo” stamped in the bowl, and a rocker engraved face stamped in the bowl, similar to that on the handle. It has two arrows on the handle. c. 1895-1910.
All Items : Popular Collectibles : Memorabilia : Black Americana : Pre 1900 item #647962 (stock #BA02)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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8.25" x 1.75", stuffe; pottery head and pottery feet and hands.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #652383 (stock #137)
Alan Kessler Gallery
$5400.00
8.5" long x 3.25" wide. Provenance: From the collection of Dr. Mary Mckee, Philadelphia, an agency physician for the Bureau of Indian Affairs from the 1890s to her retirement in 1930. Dr. Mckee graduated from the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia. After experiencing difficult setting up a private practice in her home town, due to a resistance to women doctors, she joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She served in N. Dakota with the Mandan and later in the Southwest, working with Nav...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #652609 (stock #147)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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54.875 (arms) 29 (height) 20.25" (waist, across).
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #652692 (stock #148)
Alan Kessler Gallery
$8400.00
Willow rods, with basket weaving sunshade. 36" long, 13" wide at widest point. Estate of Lola Lawrence.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #652729 (stock #150)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Late nineteenth century. 38" tall, with a base of 11.5" x 6.5". Made from cedar.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #655849 (stock #154)
Alan Kessler Gallery
$695.00
10.5" long. One of the teeth is broken, otherwise in excellent condition given its age, great patina.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #662449 (stock #160)
Alan Kessler Gallery
$750.00
Rare c.1880-1890 Numerous reproductions exist. This is one of the few real 1900 century mermaids that this gallery has seen. Excellent condition. Some rust as expected. Some paint loss. 9.5" length.
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 : Pre 1900 item #713555 (stock #SP8)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Rare Navajo Rocker Engraved Profile Spoon. Circa 1885-90. Totally rocker engraved, no stampwork. Interesting depiction of a Navajo man or woman in the bowl with hat and feathers. 5 1/2 inches in length. 1 1/8 x 1 1/4 inches bowl size. Incised file marks on the handle. A masterpiece of Navajo silversmithing.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Pre 1900 item #724286 (stock #650041)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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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 : 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 #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 : 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 1900 item #813644 (stock #D009)
Alan Kessler Gallery
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Plateau Parfleche c.1880-1890, size 24" x 13 1/4", Buffalo hide tie, Provenance: Nelson - Atkins Museum Trust, Kansas City, MO, excellent condition, slight soiling from age and wear.