Circa Late 1800s Osage Boy's Trade Blanket Leggings
- Has silver trade silver britches
- Blood red heavy early blanket wool
- 1740s to 1850s size 8 white glass trade beads edging the entire piece
- Victorian silk ribbon ties
- Braintanned leather belt ties
- 10 Eastern or French style trade silver brooches, all have different designs
- Top diameter of leggings is 16" circumference x 25 1/4" long
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Yupik (Eskimo) Muskrat Belly Parka Circa 1940s
- Trimmed in sea otter, beaver, wolf, and patchwork reign-deer calfskin
- Some cotton lining
- Metal zipper
- Shoulder to hem is 23"
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Circa 1940s Inupiaq (Eskimo) Sealskin Mukluks
- Soles are dried seal skin with the chewed, serrated toes; these are not a tourist item
- Main body is seal skin trimmed with beaver; most of the beaver fur has disintegrated from the hide
- Patched reindeer hide with beadwork designs, flannel top trim
- Left Mukluk has some shrinking on the rawhide sole
- Mukluks are 9 3/8" tall
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Circa 1940s Inupiaq Baby Parka
- Charming baby parka fully lined with rabbit fur
- Hood is trimmed with sheepskin and wolverine fur; Wolverine is the most highly prized fur as it is the only fur that will not freeze
- Cotton exterior of parka is 1940s cloth with acrobatic clowns trimmed in ricrac
- Has a metal zipper
- Length of piece including the hood is 27"
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Contemporary Hopi Rattle From Mishongnovi Village
- Elaborately crafted from a gourd with turkey feathers, yarn, leather, abalone shell and wood
- 13 1/2" long x 10" wide
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- 1940s to 1950s Navajo rattle painted ocher red, white, black, turquoise, yellow, and violet
- It has string strap on the top and knotted string fringe on the bottom
- The paint has a beautiful old patina and of the design, the top elements in the yellow background are most definitely eagle feathers
- The rattle has the sound of being stuffed with tiny rocks from an anthill as is common with Navajo peyote ceremony rattles
- This rattle was purchased from a New Mexico trader who collected it in Tsaile, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation
- The rattle, excluding fringe and handle is 9 1/2" long x 2 1/4" wide
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This Amazing Button Blanket With Accompanying Clan Totem Flags Was Designed About 1990 By Well Known Tlingit Artist, Oden Lonning And John Bonner Strong
- It was hand sewn by Linda Beck
- It is beautiful, red and black, soft, supple felted wool
- All the buttons are mother of pearl and abalone shell
- There are several amazing hand hammered, embossed, copper plates which act as eyes on the main figures
- The top of the blanket has a rod pocket (hem) through which the piece can be displayed at Indian powwows, traditional feasts and canoe races with the accompanying four flags, which give the owner's clan lineage on the tops of the poles
- This blanket set was entered in the O'odom Tosh Fair in 1992 and won several top awards
- Ribbons have been lost, but research can prove provenance at this 1992 event in Casa Grande, Arizona
- The event was judged by prestigious author, Barton Wright, Former curator of San Diego's Museum of Man and the Arizona State Museum
- The blanket measures 6' wide x 5' long
- Bird pole covers, which both face opposite directions measure 19 5/8" wide x 16" long for the larger flags
- Smaller flags measure 6 3/4" wide x 13" long
- The piece was purchased from retired silversmith, John Bonner Strong
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- Pounded ingot sheet silver
- Chiseled and stamped designs with pre-1940s simple handmade stamps and nail-set circles
- Ingot-cast forehead naja with nail-set circles and chiseled bar design
- There is a great patina on the back of all this silver work
- The back pieces through which the leather threads are all made of copper
- The 1870s - 1880s ringbit is unusually complete. It has copper rollers in the mouthpiece
- It has a silver flower and inlaid silver leaf on the side of the bit
- It has the original chains connecting the bottom of the ring to the rein chains
- The rains are intact and are old harness leather tied with braintanned buckskin
- At the bottom of this set of reins hang two elk ivories, also on braintanned thongs
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- This old sealskin bag has a bottom and straps of a brown colored commercial leather. The interior lining is quite nice: being very small print of ornate squares and a single berry. It is a two-colored calico, probably beige and black at one time, but now evenly tea-colored
- The fur on this bag is extremely nice and is not shedding at all
- It is machine stitched with a heavy brown cotton thread
- Bag measures 8" tall x 6" in diameter on the bottom
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This Powwow Hat Was Purchased From A Traditional Dancer In The 1960s At Crow Fair Powwow
- It is an old sweat stained felt hat with a tall crown and flat brim
- Attached to it is a heavy leather hat band studded with brass tacks
- Two"legal hawk" (hand-dyed) feathers are affixed into this hat band
- An ocher painted rawhide buffalo fetish, attached with a porcupine quill thong rests in front of the feathers attached to the side of the hat
- The top of the hat is embellished with and old iron spur rowel, two beads and long hanging fringes wrapped in porcupine quills from which dangle two elk teeth and two 1800s brass beads
- The hat has an old leather band inside and appears to a 3x or 4x beaver hat
- It has a 4 1/4" brim
- It has a 6 1/2" tall crown
- The size is missing but the interior is 21 1/2" in circumference
- There are no holes in the felt
- Lots of patina
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This Marvelous Navajo Child's Outfit Is All Priced Individually
- It is comprised of a 1960s Navajo handwoven wool child's Manta (dress) - $195
- A1940s Navajo sash - $90
-  A 1960s Navajo moccasins with sterling conchos - $195
- And a smaller Navajo sterling necklace with repousse beads and turquoise - $195
- The dress is comprised of two Navajo rugs carefully laced together leaving sleeve holes, a neck hole, and slits in both sides. These dresses are traditionally woven by grandmothers for their granddaughters
- This dress is a beautiful combination of black and red with cloud designs and is tightly woven and in perfect condition
- The dress was pawned in a trading post on the Navajo Reservation and bares a pawn ticket
- There are tassels on all six corners
- The dress is 15" wide x 25 1/2" long
- The V-shaped front neckline was woven to be opened out and is not merely slit
- The corners of this collar have attractive tassels
- The conchos are 1" stamped sterling silver with natural turquoise
- The sash is a beautiful old Germantown yarn very finely and tightly woven in the ornate weave that produces a double sided pattern
- On the one side, the pattern is raised and very 3-dimensional
- It is in white, red and purple, the white being a cotton warp
- The sash is 76" long, including the fringe which is 9 1/2" x 2 5/8" wide
- The moccasins are the traditional Navajo style boot with a heavy rawhide sole, brown dyed uppers, and are closed with a braintanned thong and a scalloped, stamped sterling silver concho
- The concho is 3/4" in diameter
- The moccasins are 7 3/4" long x 2 5/8" wide x 4 1/2" tall
- They have seen moderate use and have a nice patina with no damage
- The smaller Naja necklace is made of hand made sterling silver repoussed beads and small nuggets of Arizona turquoise showing mostly brown matrix
- The sandcast Naja has simple old stamp work and chiseling on it
- It appears to be a 1930s - 1940s piece and we have had it re-strung for stability with a sterling finding
- The Naja is 1 5/8" long x 1 1/2" wide
- The necklace beads are 20" long
- With the Naja the piece hangs 11" long
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This Is An Older Hopi Rattle With Great Patina
- The gourd upper handle and pin are all painted a vibrant turquouise
- Inside the gourd will be stones from an ant hill which give it a particular sound
- This particular gourd has a loud, clear sound
- The handle is painted white and has a nice worn patina from use
- Bottom of the handle is pierced with a single cotton length of string for hanging
- The rattle is 10" tall x 5" wide
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A Brown Travertine Fetish Made By The Eldest Son Of Famed Leekya Deyuse, Francis Leekya (1928 - 2003)
- Francis Leekya passed away at 75 years of age
- Like his father, he had suffered a stroke and carved with only his left hand
- Francis carved in the same style as his father.
- The brown travertine comes from a mountain of this material close to Zuni, Pueblo
- This fetish is a cardinal directional hunting fetish depicting Brown Bear Of The West
- Note the carved toes on the bear
- This is a large medicine piece, being a directional fetish rather than a collector's table fetish or the smaller medicine pouch fetishes
- This fetish was acquired from an old collection purchased by Maynard Dixon Studio owner/art dealer, Paul Bingham
- The eyes are lovely old variegated natural turquoise
- The medicine bundle is quite wonderful, being composed of a jasper arrowhead, olive heishi shell, and three pieces of turquoise. The middle piece of turquoise appears, to me, to be a carved birds head
- The bundle is wrapped with old rawhide
- The piece is 5" long x 2 1/2" inches wide
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A beautiful natural nugget of solid turquoise with some deep crevices in the stone that were obviously favored by the Indian carver, giving the appearance of fur since the back side of the fetish shows only matrix and none of these interesting veins
- The eyes on the small bear are simply drilled
- This appears to be old Kingman turquoise with the brown veining
- A lovely small medicine bundle rests on the back of the bear. It is composed of two pieces of the same turquoise, olive heishi shell and a small branch of coral
- The bundle is tied with very well-worn heavy cordage
- The piece is 1 1/2" tall x 1 7/8" long
- It is from a collection dating to the 1930s - 1940s and was acquired by Paul Bingham, the country's major Maynard Dixon painting dealer who now owns Utah's Maynard Dixon Studio
- The fetish was acquired, along with jewelry, by Bingham while he was still an art dealer in San Francisco
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Circa 1950s White Braintanned Buckskin Dress With Elk Ivory
- Traditional fringed buckskin dress with bead edged yoke containing 105 elk ivories; these are all REAL elk ivories, no carved bone or imitation; each elk has only 2 ivories
- Dress is all hand stitched with heavy cotton thread
- Front yoke has the stylized deer tail depicted with a beautiful porcupine quill rosette
- Back of dress is identical but does not have the quill work
- Yoke including fringe is 53" across
- Shoulder to hem of dress is 4'2"
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1900 - 1920s All Wool Northwest Coast Family Crest Button Blanket
- The blanket has been dated by the old red and black trade wool blanket which is the base for this beautiful family crest piece
- The totem or clan protector animals shown are a Thunderbird atop a large Whale figure
- All of the buttons are mother of pearl. These are family heirloom buttons, there are no synthetic buttons among them
- Some of these vintage buttons are hand carved
- The navy blue overlay is also wool, both the overlay and the buttons are stitched only with heavy cotton cordage or thread
- The blanket is fastened at the neck with a lovely twisted and pounded Fur Trade era, hand forged 3" x 2 1/2" iron brooch
- The blanket is 6' 3" wide x 4' 7" long
- The condition of the blanket is excellent
- There are no holes and only a few slight wear spots which can be seen in the pictures
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This Jade Eskimo Adze Has An Amazing Provenance. It Was Collected By Father Bernard Hubbard, The Glacier Priest
- It is from the ex-Paul Bingham Collection
- Father Hubbard was a Jesuit who was the former head of the Department of Geology at the University of Santa Clara, California. He was a world renowned authority on arctic phenomena and a recognized explorer, geologist, volcanologist, ichthyologist, oceanographer and paleontologist. He earned his nickname, "The Glacier Priest" while climbing the Austrian Alps, and from 1927 to 1962, he led 31 scientific expeditions into regions of Alaska and the Arctic
- The adze is made of two pieces of Walrus bone with heavy patina held together by very old rawhide strips
- The holes in the adze are made with a bow-drill and are smaller towards the middle of each hole
- The jade head is affixed inside one of the hollowed out bones and has been carefully chiseled and then stone polished into a nice edge
- Paul Bingham is a retired, well-respected San Francisco art dealer who purchased painter Maynard Dixon's early Utah studio and is the world's top Maynard Dixon art dealer
- The adze came from a collection portfolio of articles, photos and objects which Father Hubbard used for his world lectures
- At one time Father Hubbard was the world's highest paid lecturer receiving as much as $2000 per lecture
- Mr. Bingham also has for sale, this lecture portfolio and we can put you in touch with him
- The adze is 10" long
- The top half measures 4 1/2" long with the exposed jade blade being 1 5/8" long x 2" wide
- The rawhide is amazingly still intact
- The width of the handle-bone is 1 5/8" at its widest point
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Circa 1940s Inupiaq (Eskimo) Girls Cuspik
- This is a girl's summer parka worn to ward off stinging bugs in the summer
- A child's leather bolo of Mukluks is included with the dress
- The hood, sleeves and bottom of parka are trimmed in fox fur
- Body is blue and pink cotton calico trimmed with ricrac
- Parka has a big front pocket like you would expect in an old style sweatshirt
- Shoulder to hem, not including hood, is 26" long
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Late 1800s Modoc Bow From California
- Believed to be made of Ash
- Sinew bow string, very fine cordage, twisted
- This type of bow is known to many collectors as an Ishi bow, as it was used by the famous "Ishi, Last of the Yahi Indians" from Northern California
- 4'6" long x 2 7/8" wide
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This Is A Hard To Find Full Size Pueblo Drum Used For Ceremony, Not To Be Mistaken With "Made For Tourist Drums"
- Its wonderful patina suggests it is from 1950s to 1960s and was purchased by an Indian trader from Cochiti Pueblo in 1988
- The drum has an intact leather handle
- The heads of both sides of the drum are painted black with a 3" diameter circle left the natural rawhide color
- The body of the drum is a single hollowed out log
- The accompanying drum beater has old white paint on the handle and a braintanned buckskin head
- It is 16" long
- The drum is 12" tall x 13" diameter
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Very Old Knee High Mukluk Boots Of Caribou Hide
- Dried seal skin soles have the chewed, crimped fronts that were used in the olden days and the art pretty much has been lost
- The heels are also crimped on this pair for 3 1/2"
- The boots are unlined hide but have tops of very fine woven wool and old wool ties that we believe is Germantown wool
- A rawhide strap passes across the ankle part of the boot and ties
- These boots are shedding a bit but the condition is very stable, actually quite wonderful for the age
- Boots are 16" high with the soles being 11" long
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A Nice Navajo Made Headstall With A Silver Inlaid Bit And The Original Rawhide Reigns From Navajo Country
- These are rather rare and hard to find
- This piece has obviously had a lot of use and has been passed down through one family and is well used
- The bit is an iron hand forged, 1920s bit with silver inlay on the side bars and conchos
- The chains are hand forged of the same period
- The reins are in good condition and are soft, well used, rawhide reins
- All of the silver headstall pieces are 1950s to 1960s sheet sterling silver and have been deeply stamped and chiseled
- The backs of all these old silver headstall pieces have copper bars and loops with which to string them onto the headstall
- Braintanned buckskin is also used
- There is overlay work and repousse on the forehead bar
- The forehead bar and two large cheek conchos have an overlaid, chiseled center
- A medicine bag of painted rawhide hangs from the bit
- It is sinew sewn and hangs on braintanned deerhide thongs
- It has a large late 1800s brass spot in the center of the design
- The headstall pieces are strung on heavy harness leather with a 1920s roller buckle
- From the top of the headstall to the bottom of the medicine bag, not including the length of the reigns, the piece hangs 3' long
- At the bit, the piece is 6" wide
- The piece has a great patina
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Hidatsa Pair Of Contemporary Rawhide Parfleche Tipi Boxes Laced With Braintanned Buckskin
- Traditional Upper Missouri designs are painted on with natural pigment paints
- These are traditionally made in pairs to fit on both sides of a horse to balance the loads of belongings when traveling by horseback
- These boxes are in very nice condition and can be used
- Dimensions are 18" long x 11" wide x 8 1/4" deep
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- The shield is heavy rawhide, ocher painted and is a museum reproduction of a very famous shield
- This particular one is larger than the original and appears to be made in the size of the shield held by a Navajo warrior in a very famous late 1800s Edward Curtis photograph
- It was purchased from a mountain man collection in Red Lodge Montana about 20 years ago
- It is buffalo bull rawhide, very thick
- The weaving that you see is lacing done with heavily smoked braintanned deer hide thongs
- The serrated Apache cutout dangling fringes are hand cut very soft braintanned deer hide
- The half moon design on the bottom which could relate to the Apache peyote ceremony altar is also rawhide, red ocher painted
- The cutout fringes are attached with wool as a design element
- The shield, from the top to the bottom of the red half moon cutout is 31 1/2"
- From the top of the shield to the bottom of the middle fringe is 52".
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- This traditional Navajo dress is the equivalent of two matching hand woven Navajo blankets. However, one must be woven as the neck flap, for this piece is not cut but woven as part of the textile
- The two separate weavings are then carefully whip stitched together with the rugs identical yarn to fasten up the sides, leaving armholes and side slits on the skirt
- The white is all natural handspun wool with the red and the black being trading post-purchased woolen yarns
- There is a simple serrated stepped diamond design carried over from top to the bottom
- The top head slit folds back and is fastened with two lovely old German silver Navajo handmade pins from the 1930s to 1940s
- Two larger Navajo cluster pins adorn the bottom of the neckline in the Navajo cluster silversmith style
- The top brooch is definitely the oldest with handmade bezels on the stones
- The bottom brooch appears newer and has a large natural turquoise nugget in the center surrounded by repousse and edged stamped scallops
- All three of these large brooches are German silver and not sterling
- A beautiful old double-weave vintage sash of Navajo wool encircles the waste and is pinned with a 6th brooch of German silver and Kingman turquoise
- The brooch is unstamped and dates, at least, to the 1950s
- The sash and dress are both in fabulous condition and the dress was made for a large woman
- The piece hangs 4' long x 2' wide
- For reference, the larger of the two neckline pins is 1 1/4" in diameter
- The largest brooch below the neck slit is 3 3/8" long x 2 1/2" wide
- All of these pins are stitched onto the dress as well as being pinned on
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This Is An Eskimo Seal Skin Parka, Probably 1960s Vintage
- It has a ruff on the hood, cuffs and bottom of the parka of fox
- The bottom of the parka and the sleeves also contain a 3" patch-work design of diamonds in caribou calf hide
- The entire parka is hand stitched with the exception of the lining
- The parka is lined with a black quilted polyester lining and has a large blue plastic zipper in the front
- The condition of all the fur is excellent, no shedding or splitting of the hide
- It has not been allowed to dry out
- The entire parka has been well taken care of and is soft and supple
- It can definitely be worn
- It fits a medium woman, size 12 to 14
- The sleeves are 25" long
- The parka measures 18" across the back shoulders
- The coat is 30" long from the top of the shoulder to the bottom of the fox fur
- Zipped up the piece measures 46" around
- At the hips it is 50" all the way around
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This Hopi Rattle Is Made Traditionally
- It is a large gourd, many of which are grown at Santa Domingo, Pueblo and traded to the Hopi
- Inside the gourd will be stones from an ant hill which give it a particular sound
- The handle is pine with the top of the handle being pierced with a simple piece of white cotton string inserted. Tied to the end is a small feather fluff
- The bottom of the handle is drilled through and a simple cotton string is inserted through to hang the gourd
- The front face of the gourd has a sun design
- the back of the gourd has an ornate bear claw incorporating a pottery design
- The rattle stands 11 1/2" tall x 6 3/8" wide
- The bottom of the handle is incised with the maker's name: A. KUWANYAIOMA
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An Early Seal Skin Picture Frame Made For Trade To The Whites
- The dried seal skin is in pretty good shape and not shedding, though there are some balding patches as can be expected on a piece of this age
- The heart shaped frame is edged in black fabric and backed inside and on the back with a two-colored calico of faded blue with white dots
- Three little applique pieces of faded pink felt are edge beaded in translucent cobalt blue and opaque white and green glass seed beads
- The designs are two facing flowers and a star
- The hangar is a faded piece of purple wool felt
- The piece is in nice condition
- The heart measures 8" long x 7 1/4" wide
- Picture opening is 2 1/2" in diameter
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Beautiful Sealskin Jacket
- Its fur is in absolutely great condition with no shedding or stiffness of the sealhide
- The fur is very nicely matched with a nice gold in color
- The collar is a very soft brown and natural soft beaver (not faux fur)
- There are four leather covered buttons
- The jacket has a padded quilted lining and is fully lined
- This jacket would fit a medium sized woman or a smaller man
- We can ship this jacket only within the United States
- The sleeves, from shoulder to hem, are 24" long
- From shoulder to shoulder, across the back, is 17"
- Under the arm, the coat measures 24"
- It measures 48" around the coat
- The bottom of the jacket measures 56" around
- the length of the jacket is 32" long
- Condition is mint and appears to have never been worn
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- This is a medium sized Zuni bird fetish that was originally attached to a prayer pot
- It is from a collection dating to the 1930s - 1940s and was acquired by Paul Bingham, the country's major Maynard Dixon painting dealer who now owns Utah's Maynard Dixon Studio
- The fetish was acquired, along with jewelry, by Bingham while he was still an art dealer in San Francisco
- The simple bird is of turquoise with the eyes drilled and darkened
- A very nice bundle is placed on the side of the fetish, rather than on the top of the fetish, as the table fetishes of today are made for sale. A medicine arrow, two natural turquoise nuggets, the older olive heishi shell and a single corn shaped piece of white shell, is wrapped with worn buckskin.
-The fetish shows a lot of dark brown matrix and measures 2 3/4" long x 1 1/2" high
- This Fetish is in the style of, and very well could be, a Leekya Deyuse fetish
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