A CHILD'S SIZED PLATEAU PARFELCHE ENVELOPEAdiminutive painted parfleche envelope with label from 1933 written using a fountain pen from that period reads: Baby trunk made by Mary (Aspum?) George, and given to her sister,...
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NORTHERN PLAINS CATLINITE PIPES & WOODFLAT STEMSFor your consideration this lot includes two (2) Northern Plains Catlinite Pipes and Wood Flat Stems; one "plains" pipe and one "elbow" pipe. Pipestone (Catlinite)...
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EARLY 20TH C. NATIVE AMERICAN PLAINSHIDE PARFLECHE BAG...Native American, western United States, Plains Indians, probably Nez Perce ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A fine parfleche bag of rectangular...
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NATIVE AMERICAN AND OLD WEST 7PC BOOKGROUP: 12 1/4"H X 9 1/4"W X 1 1/4"D (INDIANS AND A CHANGING FRONTIER)Native American and old west 7pc book group:, The Indian Journals 1859-62, Lewis Henry Morgan, 1959;...
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ASTLEY DAVID MIDDLETON COOPER, CALIFORNIA,MISSOURI (1856-1924), DIPTYCH; CHERUBS WITH ROSES, 1895, OIL ON BOARD, 19 1/2"H X 23 1/2"W, 21"H X 25"W (FRAME)Astley David Middleton Cooper, California, Missouri, (1856-1924)...
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A PLAINS INDIAN HAIRPIPE WOMEN'S BREASTPLATEAPlains Indian hairpipe women's breastplate, Fourth quarter 19th century With bone, saddle leather, green and white glass beads, buckskin, cotton string, brass tacks, and...
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KARITA COFFEY (B.1947) CERAMIC INDIANLEGGINGSCeramic sculpture, Plains Indian Women's Leggings, Karita Coffey (Tsat-Tah Mo-oh Kahn, Comanche, b.1947), chips at underside of soles, (one) with loss to upper "tie,"...
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A CROW WOMAN'S PAINTED PARFLECHE ENVELOPEC. 1900The underrecognized parfleche 'envelope' was essentially a carrying case, a wallet or purse made exclusively by and for the women of various Native American tribes....
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A PLATEAU WOMAN'S PARFLECHE ENVELOPECIRCA 1900The underrecognized parfleche 'envelope' was essentially a carrying case, a wallet or purse made exclusively by and for the women of various Native American tribes....
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Photographic Archive of Miles City MontanaPhotographer R.C. Morrison 1880s-1890s Cowan's is proud to present the photographic archive of pioneer Montana photographer Robert C. Morrison (1850-1938) descended directly...
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[American Indian - General] Books onNative Legend Lore and Religion lot of 10 books including:Boas Orlando Villas and Claudio Villas Boas. Xingu: The Indians Their Myths. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1973.Dauenhauer...
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[American Indian - Plains] Books onPlains Art and Culture lot of 7 books including:Linderman Frank B. Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows. New York: John Day Company 1972.Lowie Robert H. The Crow Indians....
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