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Curtis Photos Of Native Americans May Fetch $3m
December 04, 2012Many of the images are burned into the American psyche, photos by Edward S. Curtis of Native Americans and their way of life just before it disappeared forever. Curtis dedicated 30-years to his work. Fewer than 300 20-volume sets of 1500 hand printed pictures were produced for subscription. Heritage will auction this set on Dec.11. An auction spokesman said it is believed to be the last in private hands. Earlier a similar set sold for nearly $3m.
Read more...Coeur d’Alene Art Sale Realizes $17.2m
July 23, 2012The Chief Joseph war shirt, which is pictured in the first photograph of the celebrated Nez Perce warrior following his surrender in 1877, is among the most prized Native American artifacts, and its price at an auction this weekend reflected it: the beaded and fringed shirt sold, within estimates, for a substantial $877,500. It wasn’t, however, the most expensive lot at the Coeur d’Alene auction in Reno, billed as the world’s largest Western Art sale. “Scout’s Report,” a painting by Howard Terpning, realized $994,500, and Frank Tenny Johnson’s “Cowboys Roping the Bear” closed at $965,250.
Read more...Famed Basket Weaver’s Rare Work Offered
April 16, 2012Datsolalee was nearly blind but recognized as Native America’s finest basket weaver whose intricate designs and precision work is expected to reap a great price when Bonham’s stages its 3-part Native American auction in San Francisco.
Read more...Peace & Other Pipes
April 29, 2011People have smoked for millennia, of course. The habit—some would say vice—has been practiced in every culture, and that’s nowhere more apparent than in Bonhams’ coming San Francisco auction of Smoking Collectibles. Featured are pipes from the Otoe people of the Plains regions to the Queen Charlotte Islands, off British Columbia. An Otoe ceremonial calumet, circa 1770—more popularly a peace pipe—carries the top estimate at the June 9th sale of $80,000-$120,000.
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