Eastern Plains or Prairie Tack-decorated Ball-headed Club, c. second half 19th century, finely carved ash, with relief-carved, file-branded, and nail-decorated weasel at the top, the ball painted with blue pigment and with traces of red pigment overall, the handle pierced for attachment, lg. 27 1/2 in. Liturature: Plains Indian Sculpture , John C. Ewers, p. 27.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-02-10
Eastern Plains or Prairie Horse Effigy Pipe, c. 1870, horse head catlinite bowl with a round ash file-branded stem, lg. 17 1/2 in. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-02-10
Plains or Prairie Porcupine Quill and Deer Hair Roach, c. last quarter 19th century, cut in four layers and with red and blue pigment, with Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-02-10
Plains or Prairie Carved Wood Grass Dance Whistle, c. second half 19th century, the bird head with black and red pigments and faceted glass eyes, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-02-10
Plains or Prairie Bone Roach Spreader, c. late 19th century, keyhole shaped, perforated for attachment, patina of use, (broken tip), lg. 7 1/2 in. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2006-05-13
Great Lakes or Eastern Plains Inlaid Pipe Bowl, c. second quarter 19th century, highly ornate disc type bowl of light color stone decorated with ornate Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-02-10
Eastern Plains Fabric Beaded Vest, possibly Eastern Sioux, mid-19th century, pictorial beaded European or American-made fabric vest, decorated on the front with floral and avian Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2020-05-05
Great Lakes or Eastern Plains Bone or Antler Awl, c. send half 19th century, with metal point, the handle in the shape of a human Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-05-05
Eastern Plains Crooked Knife, 19th century, horse effigy wood handle, with nails for eyes, inserted steel blade with wire wrapping, (end of blade broken off), Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2020-07-22
Eastern Plains Beaded Hide Moccasins, Dakota, c.1860s, the hard sole buffalo hide forms partially beaded with bilateral floral devices of multicolored small seed beads, remnant Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2019-11-09
Western Great Lakes or Eastern Plains Quilled Hide Knife Sheath, c. second quarter 19th century, quilled on the front with central sawtooth design, (quill loss, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-05-06
