Lakota Dance Shield, 19th century

A buffalo hide/parfleche dance shield, painted in red, white and green, with a stylized horned head that likely represents the buffalo spirit, encircled by lightning bolts.  Ornamented with buffalo hair and dyed domestic goose feathers.  Made at Fort Marian by Making Medicine, also known as "Owl".  Provenance:  Owned by Thomas E. Mails and pictured on page 143 of his book, "Mystic Warriors of the Plains;" to Liilian Miller; to Glenwood Swanson; to Mr. & Mrs. James Alsdorf.  See file for full ethnographic evaluation.

$18,000.00

Mesquakie effigy spoon c.19th c

A beautifully carved Northern Plains spoon, two horses and a Native American face.  Wood [maple? or ash?] 11 1/2" length

$9,500.00

Dakota Parfleche Case c. 1870

Dakota painted parfleche medicine case with two quilled drops with tin cones. 

 9" x 12"

$4,000.00

Colonial Period Powder Horn 1775

A very fine Powder Horn from the period of the American Revolution.  Very hard to find in this condition.  Numerous symbols, American Flag, Patriotic Shield, Native American Long Houses, Military display and the owner's name, S Eaton.

16"

$1,800.00

Maya Ocarina c. Pre-Columbian

Southern Mexico, Island of Jaina, Late Classic.  
Ca. AD550-950.  A small ceramic crab with incised lines of a deity face.

$600.00

Pair of Sioux Dolls, c. Turn-of-the-20th Century

A male and female pair of Sioux dolls dressed in classic Northern Plains attire.   See similar on pg 89, Memory and Vision by Emma Hansen.

Male doll: 13 1/2"

Female doll: 13"

$14,500.00

Alaskan Walrus Ivory Cribbage Board c. 1930s/40s

A wonderful cribbage board rendered in walrus ivory.  Carved in raised relief from top to bottom with various aquatic creatures, bear heads, walrus faces and a four-legged animal. Nunivak.  Baleen inset eyes. 

18 ½"

$4,000.00

Feather Box, Pueblo, c. 19th century

Carved from one piece of (possibly) sabino wood.  A large feather box with original lid.  Possibly collected by Millicent Rogers in the mid-twentieth century. 

26" x 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"

$4,500.00

Folk Art Whirligig 19th c

Collected in Keene NH some years ago.  Native American carved in wood in carved canoe.  All original paint.

$3,800.00

Double Raven Masks, NWC

Double Raven Masks, NWC

$12,500.00

Pueblo Deer Dancer Head Piece c. 19th century

A very rare Pueblo deer dancer head piece

$7,500.00

Sauk & Fox rattle sticks c. 1820

An extremely rare pair of rattle sticks, from wolf bundle, wood possibly Osage orange.  With buckskin carrying case.  Rattle 23 inches, striker 15 inches.  See Univ of Penn Museum Vol IV No 2 Plate XXIX for similar objects.  See file.

$5,000.00

Cane - Iroquoian, late 18th century

A very early and important Native American Wood Sculpture, Human-faced carvings are quite rare.  Most carvings were animal subjects from ash or alder wood.  34 1/2" long.

$9,500.00

Ioway Rattle 1840

Ioway Rattle, c. 1840. Ring shapped form with painted images and corn husk wrapped handle, fringe suspensions. 13" L. 41/2" W.
Ref: Milwaukee Museum Plate XXXIX, pg. 320

$19,500.00