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Hopi Jar by Old Lady Nampeyo & Fannie Nampeyo Jar, ca. 1920-1930 ; 8"h x 8.5" d; corrugated neck.
The design is a classic Nampeyo of the Paluluka or feathered serpent. She usually reserved the design for large storage jars since it needs space to expand on. This jar, likely made in about 1920-1930 by Nampeyo and likely painted by Fannie, has the misspelling of Nampeyo, which has been noted on other Nampeyo pottery where Fannie assisted her mother.
Nampeyo of Hano was a widely influential potter who lived and worked on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. Nampeyo is regarded today as one of the finest Hopi Potters and one of the most important figures in Native American Pottery.

Plateau Contour Beaded bag, late 19th century with beautiful floral motif

Late 19th century
With handle and with satin trim. This beautiful bag had been worn and was restored to original condition. Bag face is 7" x 6" plus trim and handle. Excellent Condition.

Large Vintage Navajo Inlay Cuff Bracelet with Blue Jay by Leo Harvey

on silver oval; Leo Harvey(d.2010), Navajo (Dine') Silversmith. Hallmarks. Saw-tooth LH. 5 1/4" length + 1 1/8" gap x 3" wide with open silver work, petite-point turquoise setting and inlay.

Beautiful Navajo Link Bracelet

Navajo Multi-stone inlay link bracelet: 1/4" x 6 3/4" length with safety chain; Inlay of Spondylus shell, Black Onyx, Natural Turquoise, Sugilite, in Sterling Silver.

Navajo Indian Belt Buckle - Turquoise in Sterling Silver

Navajo 15-Turquoise stone belt buckle
Sterling Silver and Turquoise
Circa 1990
With high-grade natural turquoise set in a heavy Sterling Silver setting.
2" x 3"
Accommodates a 1 1/2" wide belt.

Large Antique Nez Perce Cornhusk bag

late 19th century; 22 1/2" x 15 1/2"

A beautiful bag with strong colors and with only very minor wear as pictured.
Overall in Excellent Condition

Geometric Black-on-Black Pottery Jar by Maria Martinez, Signed Maria and Santana

​Grade 8-9

6 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches

Hand-coiled clay pottery
Signed on base. Native clay, hand built, native fired.

Curtis - The Rush Gatherers - Orotone / Goldtone with old labels on back.

15 1/2 x 18 1/2 frame Goldtone
10 3/4" x 13 1/2" image

The Rush Gatherer

A Kutenai Woman in an old type of canoe used by that tribe. In structure it was a light frame of wood with a covering of elk skin. This picturesque type canoe occurred nowhere else among the North American Indians.

Mr. Curtis is making his monumental collection of Indian pictures has attempted to visit and picture all important tribes of the United Sates, British Columbia and Alaska. The ..... purpose of this collection of pictures is their use as illustrations for "The North American Indian", a work of twenty volumes and twenty supplementary portfolios of pictures. The task of making these pictures has been underway for more than twenty years. This subject is selected from the great collection made as a permanent record of the North American Indian. Edward S. Curtis The Curis Studio, Seattle, Wash.

Late Classic Period Navajo Serape woven of Saxony Wool Trade Yarns

62" x 38 1/2"

c.. 1850-1860

A rare serape, primarily of 3-ply Saxony; with indigo, light green vegetable and cochineal dye. There is some ravelled bayetta along with the plied saxony wool yarns. The indigo dyed yarns is hand spun. Excellent Condition.

Of exceptional beauty, this shoulder blanket has the division of space and density of pattern which provides the powerful nature of the classic period of Navajo weaving.

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Mid-19th century Navajo rugs often used a three-ply yarn called Saxony, which refers to high-quality, naturally dyed, silky yarns that were imported from Europe. Red tones in Navajo rugs of this period come either from Saxony or from a raveled cloth known in Spanish as bayeta, which was a woolen manufactured in England and again, imported into the US. In this blanket, there is both Saxony and Bayetta yarns. Saxony blankets are extremely rare, and are noted for their exceptional quality of wool and fineness of the yarn which produced some of the most delicate and artistic Navajo blankets ever woven. In this blanket, the weaver spun her hand spun for the white and indigo dyed blue yarns as fine as the rare commercial trade yarns.
Later, with the arrival of the railroad in the early 1880s, another machine-produced yarn came into use in Navajo weaving: four-ply aniline dyed yarn known as Germantown because the yarn was manufactured in Pennsylvania.

Antique Pomo Treasure Basket

ca. 1900
5 1/4" x 10"
A beautiful basket, finely coiled with shell adornment; Excellent Condition. Available under New Acquisitions on our website. Link in bio.

Zuni Bobcat Fe**sh by artists Leland Boone and Daphne Quam. 1 7/8" h x 2 3/8" l

This is a beautiful Bobcat fe**sh carved from orange calcite.

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Very Early Antique Plateau Beaded Bag with Eagle

ca. 1860-1880
9" x 7 1/2"
Excellent Condition

Navajo Jewelry; Pendant, late 20th century

3" total (2.5" + .5" bail_ x 1 1/4" wide at top

with "Father Night Sky Yei image with stars" composed of Jet background and multi-colored stone settings for the Yei with Turquoise face; malachite field below representing "Mother Earth". Makers Mark CT ; a very faint mark of IEUZ is also visible on the back but this is likely an inventory code.

Old Lady Nampeyo of Hano

Approx. 5" d
c. 1910
(1856-1942) - Hopi Polychrome Jar

The village of Hano on Arizona's First Mesa was established around 1700 by Tewa refugees fleeing from Spanish oppression in New Mexico. Even though they learned many of the Hopi ways and intermarried into that Nation, the Tewa maintained their own speech and ceremonial practices. They became known as the Hopi-Tewa. In 1860, Nampeyo of Hano was born to a Tewa mother and a Hopi father, and thus began a life that would gain fame and honor as a master potter of her people.

Zuni Fe**sh; Malachite Mountain lion with shell arrowhead and turquoise and coral bead tied, by Leland Boone

Late 20th / Early 21st century

2.5" long
LELAND BOONE is part of the well known Teddy Weahkee family of Zuni carvers. His mother, Lena Boone, and aunt, Dinah Gasper, are renowned Zuni fe**sh artists. Leland is known for his carvings of traditional, directional set Zuni fe**shes, showing the influence of his mother.
Private Estate Collection - Excellent Condition

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Navajo Sterling Silver and Gem Grade Royston Turquoise Old Style Pendant

2.75" long including the bale; purchased from artist at the Heard Museum show.

Hallmarked AG Sterling

Private Estate Collection - Excellent Condition

Large Number 8 Turquoise Bear by Herbert Halate

Late 20th century
1 1/2" x 2 1/2"
An impressive carving with black stone tied to back.
The Number 8 Turquoise mine is in the Lynn mining district in Eureka County, Nevada. The mine has not produced Turquoise for a number of years. The Number Eight Turquoise mine was bought up by a gold mining company that does not mine the Turquoise, nor lease out the rights to the Turquoise.
Herbert Halate has been carving fe**shes for more than 20 years. His style is abstract, with large, smooth carvings of heavy, stylized bears and animals. The weighty sculptural quality of his carvings is striking. Herb's uniform, signature aesthetic is understated dramatic elegance. His highly polished bears sport simple and contrastive turquoise bundles; his stylization is unmistakable. This is a rarely seen Turquoise bear with the Jet bundle.

Private Estate Collection - Excellent Condition.

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Fine Hopi Kachina / Katsina Doll, Crow Mother; John Pietewa "95"

Late 20th century.
13.75" h
Signed: John Pietewa "95"
A superb carving in every respect.
In Hopi mythology, The Crow Mother (Angwusnasomtaka) is the maternal leader of the Whipper Kachinas. She is the Crow Bride (Angwushahai-i) on Third Mesa, with the “bride” name coming from her talking and singing as she comes dressed all in white. On the other mesas she is simply the Crow Mother. Many Hopi people consider her to be the mother of all Kachinas.
She supervises the initiation of the children into the Katsina Society and carries the yucca whips with which they are struck by the Hu Katsina. She leads other Kachinas into the village during the Bean Dance (Powamuya) bearing in her arms a basket of corn kernels and bean sprouts to symbolically start the new season properly. The Crow Mother appears during the Bean Dance on all three Hopi mesas

Sioux Full size, Fully Beaded Vest with Bronco Rider

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ca. 1900; Approximately 22" h x 18" w.
Very Similar to a vest a in St. Francis South Dakota in the Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum.
Shows wear, some sweat stains and wear at satin trim but overall in excellent condition.

Maria and Santana Feather Pottery Jar; 4 3/4" x 6 3/8"

A handsome mid-sized jar in very good condition. With only very minor wear as pictured.

Navajo Two Gray Hills Rug

ca. 1966
47" x 32 3/4"
purchased Cortez, Co.
Fine weave with central cloud motif and rain clouds in borders; natural white, black and carded gray wools, vegetal dyed brown wool. One side has slight fade. Displays the Spirit Trail or Weavers Pathway light colored weft breaking the border near a corner (a pathway for the spirit of the weaver to escape the rug so she can weave another). Excellent overall condition.

Beautiful Antique Acoma Pottery Jar
ca. 1920

Polychrome 9.5" h x 10.25" d

Excellent Condition.

NATIVE AMERICAN ANASAZI/MIMBRES POTTERY BOWL

ca. 1100-1200 AD

10" x 4.5"

Prehistoric anasazi/mimbres hand coiled and painted geoemtric design has been broken and glued with hole in bottom.

Skokomish Basket With tag "Fish Gill, Limpet & Dog 1987" Richard Cultee (1931-2014 Skokomish)

9"h

A masterful basket in Excellent Condition.

Pit River Butterfly Basket

Price on Request

ca. 1900

6" x 10"

A beautiful basket, twined with striking motif; coiled redbud rim. Excellent Condition.

Tan on Red San Ildephonso Pueblo Pottery by Rose M Gutierrez
Feather and Mountain motif
late 20th century
2 1/4" x 4 1/2"

Excellent Condition.

Tlingit basket, early 20th century

5 5/8" x 7 1/2"

Private Estate Collection. Excellent Condition.

The Tlingit of southeast Alaska have produced some of the finest examples of two-strand twining; their spruce root baskets exhibit bold geometric designs in warm hues of red, orange, yellow, and brown. In spring and fall, women collected the young roots of the Sitka Spruce, a tradition shared by both men and women today. The bark is peeled from the roots, which are left to cure over the summer. Then they are split and ready for weaving. The baskets are decorated in false embroidery, in which bleached, and often dyed grass is wrapped around the weft; the pattern is visible only on the outside of the basket. Natural dyes were obtained from local materials such as huckleberry, sulphuric mud, moss, hemlock bark, and alder bark steeped in urine. Commercial aniline dyes were popular as early as 1890, marking the beginning of the tourist trade era.

Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace SET with high grade Natural Persian Neyshabur Turquoise

ca. 1975

Hallmark "I Yazzie" (Irene Yazzie) and the Atkinson Trading Co. Shop mark. 25" length; 3" h x 2 1/2" w Naja pendant with 6 fine Persian Neyshabur Turquoise cabochon settings.

With Matching Earrings

Josephine Cordova Vigil San Ildefonso Pueblo Tan on red Feather Jar

c. 1950-1960

6 1/4" x 7" d

signed JC Vigil San Ildefonso

About:

Josephine Cordova Vigil San Ildefonso Pueblo Artist Life Span: (1927 to ?)
Husband: Vigil, Albert
Son: Vigil, Doug
Maria Martinez Pottery Signed Josephine Vigil or J.C. Vigil or Albert and Josephine

Josephine Cordova married into the San Ildefonso Pueblo around 1945 when she wed Albert Vigil. She was born at the Taos Pueblo around 1927. Encouraged by Albert’s aunt Maria Martinez to make pottery, Josephine then learned how to make pottery from Clara Montoya and Albert would paint the designs. After starting with Black-on-Black, they focused the majority of their work on Cream-on-Red after seeing Maria work with Red. Josephine passed away in January 2001 - Albert is still alive today.