05-12-201205-12-2012
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  • Lakota Beaded Hide Child's Vest

    Lakota Beaded Hide Child's Vest

    Lot: 120
    Sold for: $593$500

    Lakota Beaded Hide Child's Vest, c. first quarter 20th century, with cloth edging and beaded front and back with multicolor geometric and flag devices on a medium green background, 13 3/4 x 8 3/4 more ...

  • Plateau Beaded Cloth and Hide Vest

    Plateau Beaded Cloth and Hide Vest

    Lot: 121
    Sold for: $1,659$1,400

    Plateau Beaded Cloth and Hide Vest, c. late 19th century, with cloth back, the hide front contour-beaded with multicolor floral design on a blue background, lg. 21 in. more ...

  • Lakota Beaded Hide Vest

    Lakota Beaded Hide Vest

    Lot: 122
    Sold for: $2,133$1,800

    Lakota Beaded Hide Vest, c. late 19th century, beaded front and back with multicolor geometric designs on a white ground, with bugle bead and brass hawk bells along bottom edge, lg. 20 in. more ...

  • Lakota Beaded Buffalo Hide Child's Shirt

    Lakota Beaded Buffalo Hide Child's Shirt

    Lot: 123
    Sold for: $29,625$25,000

    Lakota Beaded Buffalo Hide Child's Shirt, c. 1870s, a pullover with short sleeves and cloth trim, beaded on both sides with stepped diagonal, cross, and hourglass designs done in multicolored seed more ...

  • Plains Bone Hairpipe Bandolier

    Plains Bone Hairpipe Bandolier

    Lot: 124
    Sold for: $652$550

    Plains Bone Hairpipe Bandolier, c. late 19th century, the long hairpipe panels strung on commercial leather strips, with brass hawk bells on one end, lg. 26 in. more ...

  • Woman's Bone Hairpipe Breastplate

    Woman's Bone Hairpipe Breastplate

    Lot: 125
    Sold for: $1,896$1,600

    Woman's Bone Hairpipe Breastplate, c. early 20th century, with commercial leather spacers and fringed with large multicolor trade beads, brass beads, and pennies, lg. 36, wd. 13 1/2 in. more ...

  • Blackfoot Beaded Loop Necklace

    Blackfoot Beaded Loop Necklace

    Lot: 126
    Sold for: $1,422$1,200

    Blackfoot Beaded Loop Necklace, c. last quarter 19th century, nine cloth strands roll-beaded with seed beads and with large brass beads, with two large shell discs at the top and strands of more ...

  • Northern Plains Loop Necklace

    Northern Plains Loop Necklace

    Lot: 127
    Sold for: $1,185$1,000

    Northern Plains Loop Necklace, c. last quarter 19th century, with eleven strands of shell beads strung between strips of commercial leather accented by large dark blue glass beads, brass shoe more ...

  • Ute Beaded Man's Choker

    Ute Beaded Man's Choker

    Lot: 128
    Sold for: $948$800

    Ute Beaded Man's Choker, last quarter 19th century, cylindrical white glass tubes strung on fiber and with brass tacked commercial leather spacers, lg. without ties 14 1/2 in. more ...

  • Crow Medicine Necklace

    Crow Medicine Necklace

    Lot: 129
    Sold for: $1,838$1,500

    Crow Medicine Necklace, c. 1870s, strung with large blue trade beads, ten elk teeth, two flat stones, and two red-stained medicine pouches, lg. 15 in. more ...

  • Lakota Ear Ornaments

    Lakota Ear Ornaments

    Lot: 130
    Sold for: $1,007$850

    Lakota Ear Ornaments, c. late 19th/early 20th century, hide fringe strung with brass beads and bone hairpipes, with three Indian Head pennies, the latest dated 1902, the old tag reads "Gottschall more ...

  • Rare Ute Beaded Breastplate

    Rare Ute Beaded Breastplate

    Lot: 131
    Sold for: $5,333$4,500

    Rare Ute Beaded Breastplate, c. last third 19th century, with multiple rows of white and blue glass beads strung between commercial leather spacers decorated with brass tacks, traces of red pigment, more ...

  • Plateau Beaded Hide Elk Tooth Dress

    Plateau Beaded Hide Elk Tooth Dress

    Lot: 132
    Sold for: $1,896$1,600

    Plateau Beaded Hide Elk Tooth Dress, c. early 20th century, partially beaded on both sides with geometric designs and with rows of bone imitation elk teeth, with bugle beads on fringe below the more ...

  • Plateau Beaded Hide Dress

    Plateau Beaded Hide Dress

    Lot: 133
    Unsold  

    Plateau Beaded Hide Dress, c. 1900, the yoke beaded with bold multicolor geometric designs, with strands of trade beads, brass beads, and brass hawk bells, with fringed edges, cloth-lined yoke, lg. more ...

  • Lakota Beaded Hide Woman's Dress

    Lakota Beaded Hide Woman's Dress

    Lot: 134
    Sold for: $6,125$5,000

    Lakota Beaded Hide Woman's Dress, c. early 20th century, the fully beaded yoke with multicolor geometric designs on a medium blue background, fringed at the yoke ends and bottom, lg. 52 in. more ...

  • Otoe Beaded Cloth Blanket Strip

    Otoe Beaded Cloth Blanket Strip

    Lot: 135
    Unsold  

    Otoe Beaded Cloth Blanket Strip, c. last quarter 19th century, black cloth with cotton print backing, beaded with a multicolor abstract foliate repeat pattern, with silk and white bead edging, lg. more ...

  • Central Plains Beaded Buffalo Hide Blanket Strip

    Central Plains Beaded Buffalo Hide Blanket Strip

    Lot: 136
    Sold for: $1,715$1,400

    Central Plains Beaded Buffalo Hide Blanket Strip, c. last quarter 19th century, with multicolor four-point star and geometric designs on a white background, lg. 64, wd. 3 in. more ...

  • Plains Man's Buffalo Robe

    Plains Man's Buffalo Robe

    Lot: 137
    Sold for: $11,850$10,000

    Plains Man's Buffalo Robe, c. mid-19th century, decorated with a large feather bonnet or sunburst design using red, black, and white (sizing) pigments, approx. 95 x 75 in. Provenance: From the more ...

  • Animal Vertebrae with Arrowhead

    Animal Vertebrae with Arrowhead

    Lot: 138
    Sold for: $429$350

    Animal Vertebrae with Arrowhead, c. 19th century, pierced by a Plains commercial metal trade point, (the tip of point is broken off and slightly bent),lg. 8 in. more ...

  • Plains Elk Antler Hide Scraper

    Plains Elk Antler Hide Scraper

    Lot: 139
    Sold for: $5,036$4,250

    Plains Elk Antler Hide Scraper, 19th century, profusely engraved with geometric and symbolic designs, lg. 13 1/4 in. more ...

  • Plains Incised Buffalo Hide Rattle

    Plains Incised Buffalo Hide Rattle

    Lot: 140
    Sold for: $5,333$4,500

    Plains Incised Buffalo Hide Rattle, c. third quarter 19th century, wood handle wrapped with hide and with hair extension, with large brass bell tied on the head, with incised thunderbird with more ...

  • Sioux Wood Hide and Cloth Game Wheel

    Sioux Wood Hide and Cloth Game Wheel

    Lot: 141
    Sold for: $711$600

    Sioux Wood Hide and Cloth Game Wheel, c. second half 19th century, with red pigment on the buffalo hide webbing, dia. 9 1/2 in. Collected on the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana. more ...

  • Blackfoot Rawhide and Wood Rattle

    Blackfoot Rawhide and Wood Rattle

    Lot: 142
    Sold for: $593$500

    Blackfoot Rawhide and Wood Rattle, c. last quarter 19th century, with cloth-wrapped handle, braided hide suspension and red ochre overall, custom stand, lg. 10 3/4 in. more ...

  • Rare Pictograph Drawing on Muslin by Chief Henry One Bull (Sitting Bull's Nephew)

    Rare Pictograph Drawing on Muslin by Chief Henry One Bull (Sitting Bull's Nephew)

    Lot: 143
    Sold for: $94,800$80,000

    Rare Pictograph Drawing on Muslin by Chief Henry One Bull (Sitting Bull's Nephew),Lakota, titled "Symbolic pictograph of Custer's Battle, drawn-painted, 1892, Chief One Bull," depicting a complete more ...

  • Chippewa Lead-inlaid Black Stone Pipe Bowl

    Chippewa Lead-inlaid Black Stone Pipe Bowl

    Lot: 144
    Sold for: $1,103$900

    Chippewa Lead-inlaid Black Stone Pipe Bowl, c. third quarter 19th century, a "locomotive"-style bowl with geometric and single Maltese cross designs, (some loss),lg. 4 1/2, ht. 2 7/8 in. more ...

  • Eastern Sioux Catlinite Pipe Bowl

    Eastern Sioux Catlinite Pipe Bowl

    Lot: 145
    Sold for: $1,007$850

    Eastern Sioux Catlinite Pipe Bowl, c. last quarter 19th century, in the form of a bird's claw grasping the bowl, lg. 3 1/4 in. more ...

  • Blackfoot or Plains Cree Black Steatite Pipe Bowl

    Blackfoot or Plains Cree Black Steatite Pipe Bowl

    Lot: 146
    Sold for: $889$750

    Blackfoot or Plains Cree Black Steatite Pipe Bowl, c. mid-19th century, with hammer claw ends, and bulbous bowl, with incised and lead inlay detail, custom stand, lg. 3 3/4, ht. 3 in. more ...

  • Two Inlaid Pipe Bowls

    Two Inlaid Pipe Bowls

    Lot: 147
    Sold for: $1,103$900

    Two Inlaid Pipe Bowls, an early Plains-style catlinite bowl with geometric and arrow inlays, (old repair),and a Great Lakes steatite bowl with lead and catlinite inlays, (repaired),lg. to 5 3/4 more ...

  • Early Miniature Woodlands Indian Pipe Tomahawk

    Early Miniature Woodlands Indian Pipe Tomahawk

    Lot: 148
    Sold for: $1,185$1,000

    Early Miniature Woodlands Indian Pipe Tomahawk, c. early 19th century, with pewter head and pewter-inlaid wood handle, stand, lg. 3 5/8 in. Provenance: Ex Trevor Barton Collection, England. more ...

  • Plains Quill-wrapped Pipe

    Plains Quill-wrapped Pipe

    Lot: 149
    Sold for: $711$600

    Plains Quill-wrapped Pipe, c. 1900, the ash stem partially quilled with fine multicolored plaiting, the red pipe stone T-bowl with faceted prow, lg. 24 1/2 in. Provenance: Hugh M. Jones III. more ...