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American Indian Beaded High Top Moccasins
This is an outstanding pair of American Indian Women high top moccasins. They are beaded wrap around boot moccasins in soft tanned white deer hide with bead work in orange turquoise and blue beads. They are in very good condition although they have kiltered out of shape in the foot from improper storage - never the less a spectacular example to add to the collection. They measure 10" long x 12 ½" high, sinew sewn.
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Antique Glass Vase Native American Indian Portrait
Indian Portrait Vase entitled Chief Red Cloud Portrait Vase. Nice glass vase with a portrait I believe of Chief Red Cloud - I'm not 100% sure but that is my best guess. Nice transfer portrait and on the side of the portrait written on the vase is Salisbury Beach 1903 - could quite possible be also 1908. Obviously a high end souvenir piece from that time period - I think Salisbury Beach is in New York - but I'm not quite sure of that either. The vase measures 7 3/8"h and the diameter of the base is 4". It is in excellent condition - no damage what so ever.
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American Indian Beaded Moccasins Cheyenne
Fine pair of American Indian Beaded moccasins - Southern Cheyenne. They are beaded in a colorful triangle design with white ground, blue turquoise, orange and yellow beads. The moccasins measure 10" long and are in wonderful condition. They date from the very early 1900’s or earlier. Search American Indian crafts clothing tribal ethnographic Native American beadwork.
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American Indian Beaded Moccasins Arapaho
Here is a great pair of American Indian Beaded Moccasins - Northern Arapaho. They have white, black, yellow and red beads on a full turquoise field fully surrounding the top and sides of the moccasins. They are sinew sewn and in very good condition - except for some slight separation of the sole to the body on the inner left side of the left foot. They measure 9 ½" long.
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Alaskan Inuit Indian Beaded Moccasins Antique
Here is a great vintage pair of Native American moccasin boots "Inuit Alaskan" dating from the early 1900's. They are made of deer hide trimmed in rabbit fur. The central design is of cloth. They measure 8" long x 5"high. The condition is excellent - they are soft, supple and clean. They were obviously well cared for. The precious small size makes them a must have!
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Antique Native American Indian Pottery Bowl
This is a super American Indian Pottery Bowl. The bowl has wide shoulder and tapered body with a 4 ½" diameter opening at the top with a notched edge. It has fabulous bold geometric shapes with three stylized faces. It has a bold concave base and it measures 7"high x 8" in diameter. It is in very good condition with no breaks or chips. It possibly may be Acoma.
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Native American Art Pottery Olla Vessel Indian
Tall Round Bottom Indian Jar. Geometric patterns in red and brown on a light tan pottery. Circa 19th century. Step-type decoration in triangles. Measuring 10"h x 9" at widest. The condition is very good.
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Antique Native American Indian Quill Box
Super nice 19th century Native American Indian quill decorated birch bark box. This is a very large size box measuring 8 5/8" w x 5 1/8"h x 6 ½" deep. The interior is wood as you know and the exterior cover is of birch bark and then fully decorated in porcupine quills. The box has an unusual decoration - all along the outside lid edge you can see that every other square is decorated in quills. The top of the lid is also fully decorated with some spots (actually quite a few spots) of missing quill work. It makes sense because this box dates from the last half of the 19th century. It is very hard to notice the quill lost because the design is so full and so complicated but other wise in very good condition and structurally sound. It would make a dynamite addition to your American Indian basket collection.
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American Indian Concho Belt Silver & Leather 1930s
The biggest Concho belt that I have ever seen! This belt has 9 total large oval silver Conchos (8 plus buckle) I cant even begin to estimate how much all of the silver would weigh .They are threaded onto a huge leather belt that is 3" wide x 38" long. The belt appears to me to date from the 1930’s.The leather has a rich patina & is still soft & pliable. The silver Conchos appear to also have the original surface as well.The overall look & feel is rich ,warm & expensive! Please take a look at my entire web catalogue for more American Indian Items & fine antiques.
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Santa Clara Pueblo Pottery Jar Signed
This is a beautiful black ware pottery bowl made by well known & famous potter, Santa Clara artist Flora Naranjo.It is approximately 50 years old. Signed on the bottom ,This bowl is in beautiful condition. The artists of the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico produces some of the most desirable and beautiful pottery of all of the Southwestern Pueblos. I just recently acquired a small but elegant selection of these pottery vessels from an estate here in Rockland Maine .This Jar measures 5 ¼" High x 4 ½" diameter of top opening, hold a tape across the front of the body & it measures 7".Flora Naranjo.It is now deceased & her Son Sammy is carrying on the tradition of pottery making & has quickly become just as famous as his mother!
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Southwest Indian Pottery Vessel
A great Native American Pottery Vessel, Measuring 6" high x 4" diameter. In the Eagle Feather Design: Hopi Indian for sure & after recently researching some Indian pottery pieces, I will attribute this piece although unsigned to Roberta Youvella Silas.After looking at several examples I feel very certain that Roberta is the maker of this vessel, I have included a bit of info on this artist for you, so read on about this fascinating woman & her pottery!
Roberta Youvella Silas was born in 1939 and has been making pottery since 1965. She is the daughter of Pauline Youvella (Laguna Pueblo) and Roy Youvella (Hopi-Tewa). No one in her family made pottery, so she learned to make pottery by working with Helen Naha (Feather Woman).
Silas lives in the village of Polacca at First Mesa, where she has been able to see many examples of ancient Sikyatki pottery in the form of pot shards. She has incorporated the ancient pottery designs from these shards into her work.
This is an extremely well made small bowl. It is nicely formed and painted with a precise hand. The ancient Sikyatki designs are a reminder of the continuity of pottery making on the Hopi mesas.
Roberta Youvella Silas (b.1939)
Laguna-Hopi-Tewa
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Mayan Indian Knife Carved Horn Handle
This awesome knife in sheath, to me is a special little thing. Completely hand made carved & inlaid .Made of animal horn & inlaid with bone & coral, in the form of a Mayan Effigy. It has a nice blade with the name of Chichicastanango,which is a place in Guatemala, info to follow below. So I suspect that this is most likely a tourist item & is about 50 years old or more. The leather sheath is all hand tooled& sewn. A great collectible item ,I especially have a thing for ethnographic crafts like this. I can picture a native from Chichi sitting on the side of the road making & selling his crafts ,a way of life & making a living ,I believe that a craft like this item should be cherished & preserved as a reminder of the work ethic & ingenuity of these ancient people. This knife measures 11 ¼" Long & is truly full of life & excellent quality & primitive in nature.
Chichicastenango, also known as Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, is a town in the El Quiché department of Guatemala, known for its traditional Maya Indian culture. The Spanish conquistadors gave the town its name from the Nahuatl name used by their soldiers from Tlaxcala: Tzitzicaztenanco, or City of Nettles. Its original name was Chaviar.
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Lithograph Art Plate Jamestown Pocahontas and capt John
A super nice & rare collectible item to find celebrating our early history in the United States. This is a lithographed tin plate made by W.H.Owens & Co.Manchester Va.Vienna Art Plates pat Feb 21st 1905.I hope you can see the super fantastic colors in the plate as well as the exceptional detail. The central subject of the plate is Pocahontas offering up herself to save Captain Smiths Life .A great collectible for the enthusiast of or early settlement history & American Indian Art.
This plate is 10" in diameter & is in very condition,
Captain John Smith (1580–June 21, 1631) was an English soldier, sailor, and author. He is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and his brief association with the Native American girl Pocahontas during an altercation with the Powhatan Confederacy and her father, Chief Powhatan. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between 1607 and 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay.
His books may have been as important as his deeds, for they encouraged more Englishmen and women to follow the trail he had blazed and colonize the New World. He gave the name New England to that region, and encouraged people with the comment, "Here every man may be master and owner of his own labor and land...If he has nothing but his hands, he may...by industry quickly grow rich." It was a powerful message, which attracted millions of people in the next four centuries.
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African Folk Art Donkey Seat or Stool
A great African carved seat. As you can see the central point of this stool is a Donkey. This is a nice size stool measuring 16 3/8" high x 16 ¼" diameter. The wood is a light color & is of very light weight,Im pretty sure this stool dates from the very early 1900’s.This type of stool was a very important part of the African culture .Important people had important stools! This stool has several cracks from age & a good amount of worm holes. This is one very amazing African Artifact.
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Stone Lithograph American Indian 1833
Amazing Image on Stone of Shin Ga Ba W’ossin.Philadelphia, Published by Key & Biddle from Childs & Inmans Lith Press. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1833 by Key & Biddle in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Stone Lithographs are very rare & this one is in exceptional condition .Having only a very minor amount of yellowing .The colors are exquisite & the detail is something to behold! Housed in a very simple frame .It measures overall 20 ½" Long x 15" wide. The frame is only 1".
The following is a biography of Shin Ga Ba W’Ossin, a famous North American Ojibwa Chief.
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