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1. 31 3/4” Birch Bark Canoe

       2.   6 3/8” Pair of Child’s Woven Grass Shoes – mint condition, Trade Cloth Tops, Chippewa

       3.   5” Front of Beaded Crow Tobacco Bag (missing back) circa 1880’s

       4.   10 1/4” Hand Forged Dag Knife Blade – Kansas

       5.   8” x 9 1/2” Fringed Beaded Bag on Red Trade Cloth – circa 1900

       6.   6” Beaded Bag – circa 1930’s

       7.   6” Paint Decorated Leather Shot Bag with wood spout

       8.   14” Pair of Beaded Gauntlets with fringe – circa 1940’s

       9.   9 3/4” Wood Carved Totem Pole

     10.   2 Items: Fossilized Ivory Tool, Fossilized Bone Shaft Straightner – largest 6 3/8”

     11.   17 3/4” Catlinite Pipe Tomahawk – 2 pcs., engraved blade

     12.   26” Granite Clubhead with Hide Covered Handle

     13.   7” Hand Carved Horn Spoon

     14.   3 Items: 18 x 24 Oil Painting of Indian Chief by J. Moralle Moore, 10 x 15” Navajo Harpers Weekly 1890, 19 3/8” x 15 3/4”, framed painting of “The Old Peyote” Round House, Church, Elaine Lane (Osage)

     15.   5 Books: Navajo Rugs, Don Pedera, Revised Edition 1990, Indian Baskets Sarah and William Turnbaugh 1986, Native Arts of North America David W. Renney 2003, Native American Collectibles Shuman III 1998, Hopi Kachinas by Clara Lee Tanner

     16.   3 Kachinas: 7” Mikpi Chapella by White Bear, 11 1/2” Kachina by D. Talas, 12” White Chin by Arnold Youvella, “95” All nicely carved and painted

     17.   23” x 33” Framed Cast Resin on Copper “End of Trail” (SpearHead broken off )

     18.   6 3/8” Rare D.F. Barry Photo of Little Big Horn Veteran “Crow King” Cabinet Photo Late 1870’s (nice)

     19.   7” Cabinet Photo of Sitting Bull by D.F. Barry (Rare)

     20.   5 1/4” x 9” Photo of “Stands For Them” by O.A. VIK (Rare)

     21.   9 7/8” Pewter Inlayed Indian Knife

     22.   4 x 6 Cabinet Photo: 5 Seated Kiowa Braves “Poor Buffalo” Short Greasy Hair, Buffalo Chap “Got Shot” and FeatherHead, Rare Photo! Indian on right has cocked C.W. Spencer Carbine

     23.   10” Curved Knife marked J. Russell & Company Green River

     24.   9 3/4” Pair of Classic 1870’s Crow Moccasins – Beaded Cornstalk Design, cloth trim (nice)

     25.   10” Pair of Plains Fully Beaded Ceremonial Moccasins – 1870’s (nice)

     26.   9 1/4” pair of N.E. Moccasins – old beads, Trade cloth trim, one sole loose

     27.   7” plus Fringe, Plateau Style, Beaded Bag – blue back ground, flower design, seed beads, some minor bead loss

     28.   7” Plains Indian Doll – circa 1930’s

     29.   5 3/4” Early Notch Ax with Heavy Cartouche – hand forged

     30.   5 1/4” Pottery Turtle Effigy Rattle – painted red lines on top and bottom, Arizona, one leg broken and glued (Rare)

     31.   4 Ivory Scrimshaw Pendants – one has 14Kt. Gold Band, one ivory scrimshaw pin, one scrimshawed sterling ring

     32.   4” Santa Clark Wedding Vase – Black on Black

     33.   5 1/2” N.W. Coast Engraved Coin Silver Spoon

     34.   5 3/8” Hand Forged Trade Axe

     35.   8” Large Hand Forged Axe – found near the Huron Village of Cahagus, near Orilla, Ontario Can. 1615-1635, Multiple stamp in center, Ref. New Hampshire Historical Society, Ex. John Rolland Collection (Rare)

     36.   4” Scrimshawed Carved Ivory Canoe – Alaska

     37.   3 Pair Childs Beaded Moccasins Over Animal Hide – largest pair 9”

     38.   30” Beaver Pelt (nice!)

     39.   40” Long Leather Shot Gun Chaps, zipper legs marked Belt with letters “LC”

     40.   15” Pair of Leather Boots, Beaded Tops with animal fur sides – circa 1940’s

     41.   Lot of 4 Mexican Textiles: 2 Mats, 2 Rugs, largest is a wall hanging rug 66” x

39 1/2”

     42.   3 13/16” Hardstone 3/4 Groove Axe – Ross Co. Ohio, Davis C.O.A. (a few small chips to bit)

     43.   4 1/4” Hornstone Lost Lake Point – Ohio, Davis C.O.A. (ding to one barb)

     44.   3 1/4” Hardstone Pendant – Davis C.O.A. Ohio

     45.   2 5/8” Hardstone Groove Top Plummet - Davis C.O.A. Ohio

     46.   3” Agate Basin Point of Carter Cave Flint – Davis C.O.A. Kentucky

     47.   3 1/8” Sandstone Adena Expanded Center Gorget - Clermont Co. Ohio – Davis C.O.A.

     48.   3 3/4” Robbins Adena Point of Boyle Chert – Mason Co. Ky. – Davis C.O.A.

     49.   4 3/8” Historic Catlinite Pipe with engraved decorations, Tobacco residue in bowl – Wabash, Indiana

     50.   5 7/16” Cobbs Knife- Madison Co. Ill. – Davis C.O.A.

     51.   5 7/8” Bell Pestle – Kentucky, Davis C.O.A. – nice

     52.   Three Ohio Hematite Plummets – two are grooved – largest 1 9/16” – all have Davis C.O.A’s

     53.   3 1/2” Banded Slate Adena Expanded Center Gorget – Licking Co. Ohio – Davis C.O.A.

     54.   3 1/4” Porphyry Celt – Ohio – Davis C.O.A.

     55.   5 1/8” Carter Cave Flint Knife – Kentucky – Davis C.O.A.

     56.   4 3/4” Hardstone Celt – Ohio – nice polish, ding to poll, Davis C.O.A.

     57.   2 7/8” Banded Slate Hopewell Reel Gorget – a few chips and some freeze damage to one side (rare)

     58.   2 1/8” Sandstone Grooved Loafstone – Ohio – Davis C.O.A.

     59.   1 3/8” Hardstone Grooved Plummet – Ohio – Davis C.O.A.

     60.   2 7/8” Banded Slate Deeply Scooped Boatstone – Ashland ? Co. Ohio ( a few old chips to bottom edge) pictured page 63 “Ohio Slate Types” by Converse

     61.   4” Banded Slate Pendant – Ohio

     62.   4 1/2” Banded Slate Trapazoidal Pendant – Ohio – nice

     63.   Two Ohio Discoidals – one engraved sandstone, one hardstone, largest 2” – both have Davis C.O.A.’s

     64.   4 1/8” Hardstone Chisel – Ohio – Davis C.O.A. (Nice)

     65.   4 3/16” Hornstone Adena Point – Ohio – Davis C.O.A.

     66.   4 1/4” Banded Slate Hopewell Pentagonal Pendant – Hardin Co. Ohio – Ex. Ernie Good Collection – ding to corner (nice)

     67.   6 1/4” Dover Chert Elk River Point – Tenn. – Davis C.O.A. (Fine)

     68.   3 7/8” Hardstone Discoidal – Clermont Co. Ohio – Davis C.O.A.

     69.   Six Nice Ohio Points – all with Davis C.O.A.’s – largest 3 1/4”

     70.   Book The Iroquois or The Bright Side of Indian Character by Minnie Myrtle First Edition 1855, 377 pages

     71.   Seven Points –all Carter Cave Flint – all Kentucky – all with Davis C.O.A.’s – largest 3 3/8”

     72.   Limited Edition 2 Volume Set Leather bound History of the Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas McKenney and James Hall, 1978, Kent Ohio in original box

     73.   Done in the Open Drawings of Frederick Remington 1902

     74.   Archaeological Atlas of Ohio Mills Columbus Ohio – rare

     75.   Group of Five Nice Ohio Hammerstones – one is Gneiss, two are quartz and two hardstones - all around 3”

     76.   The Charles M. Russell Book Harold McCracken, 1957 First Edition

     77.   American Indian Tomahawks Harold L. Petersen, 1971, Heye Foundation

     78.   Group of Six Celts, one 7 5/8” St. Louis Co. Mo. and Five from Ohio – largest

6 1/2”

     79.   2 Buffalo Leg Bone Scrappers – largest is 9” – Plains

     80.   21 1/4” Bone Dance Wand – traces old red paint, beaded, sinew wrappings, old bell, nice old piece

     81.   14” Elk Horn Hide Scrapper – missing metal blade

     82.   4 3/8” Ivory Tooth Scrimshaw Carnature Tool Alaska Reindeer Hunting Scene

     83.   6 3/8” Beaded Turtle Fetish – Sioux 1890

     84.   23” Sinew Hide Covered Club with horse hair drop

     85.   4” Prehistoric Fossilized Cave Bear Tooth

     86.   6” Santa Clara Effigy Bird Bowl signed Grace Medicine Flower

     87.   8” Catlinite T Pipe with a 15 1/4” Calinite Stem, Naca Sioux Society Pipe, Standing Rock area circa 1860-1870 thought to have been made by Red Fish, pipe maker for Sitting Bull

     88.   2 Strands of Trade Beads – both 21” long

     89.   3 1/8” Ivory Carved Caricature and stand

     90.   3 3/4” Shell Gorged – Sioux, old writing on front, illegible

     91.   11” Elk Tine Scraper – Plains

     92.   36 1/2” Indian Bow – Old paint, childs ? nice circa 1870-1880

     93.   6 Metal Tipped Arrows in wood display, frame – nice!

     94.   Lot of 5 Books: Pictorial History of the American Indian Oliver Lafarge 1956 The American Indian Oliver Lafarge 1974, American Indian Civilization A. Hayall Verrill 1938, Ojibway Drums,  Marian W. Magoon 1955 Indians of the Americas Nat. Geographic Society 1955

     95.   Drakes Indians of North America  Samuel G. Drake, 1880 New York

     96.   Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs Norman B. Wood 1906, Illustrated – Good Book!

     97.   2 Books: Indian Wars James P. Boyd 1891, excellent book Indian Massacres and Tales of the Red Skins A.D. Porter 1895, paperback – both rare books

     98.   Vol. 1 only of 2 Vol. Set  Handbook of the American Indians Frederick W. Hodge 1907, BAE Bulletin #30

     99.   2 Books: Sitting Bull and the Indian War W. Fletcher Johnson 1891, Custer, The Life of General George Armstrong Custer Jay Monaghan, 1959 1st Edition

   100.   46” Wood Plains Indian Bow – circa 1880

   101.   4 1/2” Beaded 2 Sides Sioux Bag – circa 1890

   102.   29 5/8” Wood Plains Indian Bow – with arrow groove on side, circa 1880

   103.   10 1/2” Fossilized Bone Fish Net Spacer – Alaska

   104.   21 1/2” Spontoon Pipe Tomahawk with tacked & pewter inlaid handle which is file branded – head measuring 9” – handle has a pewter mouth piece –appears to be reservation period

   105.   20” Hide Covered Club with Horse Hair Drop – circa 1870

   106.   9” (2) Police Saps – leather covered – circa 1920

   107.   20 pc. Ivory Gaming Sticks – longest 3” – Alaska

   108.   2 1/2” Carved Ivory Seal Lure?

   109.   4 pcs. 6 1/4” Seal Rib Harpoon Tip, 5 1/2” Whalebone Harpoon Socket, 8” Carved Bone Scraper, 5” Bone Harpoon Tip – all from Alaska

   110.   (2) 2 7/8” x 3 3/8” Ambrotypes in Brass Mountings

   111.   21 1/2” Brass Tacked Wood Handled Iron Tomahawk with bleeding heart cut out

   112.   72” Buffalo Horn Beaded Hairdrop with 24 graduated coin silver engraved conchos & horsehairs drop worn by the warrior during dance ceremonies – nice

   113.   7 7/8” Carved Otter Wood Handled Ulu – Alaska

   114.   5 1/2” x 3 1/8” Parfleche Envelope – Nice!

   115.   Eskimo Art Dorothy Jean Ray 1977, 298 pages

   116.   “Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait” – Allen Wardwell 1986, 132 pages

   117.   23 7/8” Gun Barrel Flute with Catlinite Sound Board – Rare, Lakota Sioux or Chippewa, includes cloth storage bag and information from Smithsonian on similar flutes, gun barrel is highly decorated with punctuated designs

   118.   25” O.L. Catlinite “T” Pipe with quilled stem – the stem is 4 winds design, Santee or Yankton Sioux 1870-1890, purchased at Mitchell, South Dakota

   119.   4” Bone Harpoon with slate point – Eskimo – Alaska

   120.   4” Carved Bone with Hafted Slate Scraper – Rare – Alaska

   121.   12 1/2” Buffalo? Vertabre with carved pair of owls carved in top – rare and old, interesting artifact (Plains)

   122.   37” Framed in Display Case Beaded Bandolier Bag – Chippewa or Mennominee – very fine condition – circa 1880 –Great Piece!

   123.   3 Bone Scrapers – smallest is broken – largest is 12 1/4”

   124.   6 1/4” Flint Notched Hoe Polished Bit with a few chips

   125.   Two Ohio Flint Drills with old tag with finders names & locations – largest 3 1/2”

   126.   4” Slate Adena Bi-Concave Gorget – many tally marks – Ross Co. Ohio

   127.   4 3/4” Burlington Chert Dovetail Point – Calhoun Co. Ill.

   128.   4 1/4” Slate Pendant – Ohio

   129.   4 1/16” Kanawa Flint Paleo Stemmed Lanceolate Point – Ohio – small ding to tip

   130.   5 3/4” Burlington Chert Parallel Flaked Sloan Dalton Point – St. Louis Co. Mo. – Ex. Frank Moarast Collection – nice

   131.   6 1/2” Banded Slate Glacial Kame Tube Pipe –Delaware Co. Ohio – Ex. Bapst, Johnson Collections ( a few small chips at ends) nice

   132.   5 1/2” Flint Notched Hoe Polished Bit

   133.   5 1/2” Slate Crescent Bannerstone – Mason Co. Kentucky – old chip at one end smoothed by Indian – Nice

   134.   2 1/8” Fine Grained Sandstone Turtle Effigy Pipe – finely carved with feet on bottom – Tobacco Residue in bowl – found Blennerhasset Island near Marietta Ohio – nice

   135.   1 5/8” Fine Grained Sandstone Pipe Bowl engraved design on front – Meigs Co. Ohio

   136.   24” Strand of Trade Beads

   137.   4 3/4” Banded Slate Expanded Center One Hole Gorget or Pendant – Ohio

   138.   2 1/4” Hardstone Discoidal – Campbell Co. Kentucky

   139.   4 1/8” Florida Pickwick Type Point of Translucent Orange Red Coral – Fine

   140.   3 3/8” Grooved Top Hematite Plummet – Calhoun Co. Ill.

   141.   2 1/8” Slate Pipe Bowl – Highly engraved with Human Figures and Geometric Designs – Delaware Co. Ohio

   142.   4 3/8” Cave Bear Tooth from Ural Mts. Romania

   143.   3 1/4” Steatite Face Effigy Elbow Pipe – Dyer Co. Tenn.

   144.   2 3/8” Highly Polished Hematite Fluted Bannerstone – broken into several pieces and glued – Tenn.

   145.   4 3/8” Steatite Elbow Pipe – Perry Co. Tenn.

   146.   3 3/8” Undrilled Hardstone Bar Amulet – Scioto Co. Ohio – Ex. Walter Diamond Collection

   147.   3 1/8” Flint Ridge Dovetail Point – Ohio – Old Ding to side

   148.   2 3/4” Unusual Polished Bone Cup – Morgan Co. Kentucky

   149.   2 1/4” Hardstone Discoidal with nice Quartz Inclusion found 1936 Weakly Co. Tenn.

   150.   4 3/4” Nice Hematite Celt – Lewis Co. Mo.

   151.   4” Banded Slate Scooped Boatstone – Ohio

   152.   5 5/8” Red Slate Shuttle Bannerstone – Stewart Co. Tenn. – a few old flakes on back

   153.   4 1/2” Fine Quartzite Dimpled Bisquit Discoidal – Dyer Co. Tenn.

   154.   5 1/8” Smith Point – Nice

   155.   2 13/16” Banded Slate Panel Bannerstone – Classic Form with raised ends – Wayne Co. Ohio – Ex. Gilbert Dilley Collection

   156.   3 3/4” Undrilled Porphory Popeyed Fan Tailed Birdstone – found 1941 by Wilbur Dale near Fremont, Sandusky Co. Ohio – Top of head broken off including much of the eyes

   157.   4” Flint Ridge Adena Point – Ohio – old ding to base

   158.   4 1/4” Bi-Concave Slate Gorget – Ohio – Nice

   159.   Two Books – The Glacial Kame Indians  by Converse 1979, 159 pages and Ohio Dovetails by Lar Hothem 1999, 175 pages

   160.   Frame of Ten Ohio Flint Drills – largest 3 3/8”

   161.   Job Lot of Thirty-two Ohio Stone Tools – largest 5 7/8”

   162.   Frame of Fifty Small Points – mostly Triangles – from the Vietzen Collection – largest 1 3/8”

   163.   Six Paperback Books – Pamphlets In Red Mans Land by Francis Leupp, Two Issues The Wisconsin Archeologist Wyandot Co. (Ohio) Museum Catalog The Art of the North American Indian by the Toledo Museum of Art and Prehistoric Indians of the Ohio Valley Webb-Baby

   164.   Four Wood Framed Displays (largest 17” x 15 1/2”) Total of 81 Artifacts, mostly Flint Points and Pottery Shards – largest 5 1/2”

   165.   8 3/4” x 6” Nice old Cast Iron Picture Frame Displaying Seven Ohio Points – largest 2 1/4”

   166.   Six Frames Containing Total of 29 Flints – Various States – largest 5 1/8”

   167.   25 3/4” Great Lakes Beaded Cradle Board – circa 1900- 1920

   168.   13 x 15 Quilled & Beaded Possible Bag with metal tinklers, some quill loss – early 1900’s

   169.   16” Cradle Board – very finely bead decorated possibly Delaware

   170.   6” Beaded Childs Miniature Horse Stick – rare/unique

   171.   15” Beaded Hide Covered Handle Stone Childs Toy Club – nice!

   172.   11 5/8” Wood Kachina – S.W. with hair, wood cracked in back

   173.   8 1/2” Wood Kachina – circa 1960, crack in body

   174.   9 1/2” Beaded Glengary Mohawk Cap – nice condition

   175.   6 Steel Arrow Points – largest 4 1/8” long, Missila Mt.

   176.   3 Pcs. of Handmade Zuni Jewelry – Turquoise & Sterling Pendants with chain (only 2 have chains)

   177.   6 1/2” 2 Sided Beaded bag with fringe and old trade cloth

   178.   8 1/2” Wood Kachina with movable arms – circa 1960

   179.   7 3/8” Soft Bladder Eskimo Embroidered Bag – finely made, drawstring

   180.   10” Plains Beaded Knife Sheath – circa 1940 with old knife

   181.   31 3/4” Wood Recurved Indian Bow – circa 1880 – nice

   182.   11” x 12 3/4” Display Case containing 7 Miniature Hand Made Indian Weapons and sheaths, bow/quiver, knife, sheath, lance, tomahawk (contemporary)

   183.   Job Lot of 5 Framed Photos of Indians and children and Victorian bead work

   184.   3 Tourist Items: Birch Bark Tray, Wood Wall Hanging, Birch Bark Canoe, largest 18 1/4” long

   185.   18 x 15 (2) Baskets: Choctow Split Cane – circa 1940, 11 1/2” x 12 Eastern Woven Bark

   186.   9 x 8 3/4” Pima Basket with Human Standing Figures – damage to rim area and several spots damaged on sidewalls

   187.   11 1/2 x 18 Photograph of Indians standing by tombstones at Custer Battlefield – Framed

   188.   10” x 15 1/2” Anasazi Olla – This pot was purchased 25 years ago from a Santa Fe Gallery, it was broken during shipping and was glued back together, it has not been professionally restored, a few small pieces are missing, it is an extremely rare pot worthy of restoration

   189.   33” x 20” x 14 1/2” Wood Child’s Rocking Bed – unusual

   190.   20” x 21” Pima Basket 1880-1900 Large Lizards, crosses and diamond pattern, several area’s of stitch loss and damage to sidewalls

   191.   8 1/4” x 9 1/4” Lidded Eskimo Polychrome Diamond Design Basket

   192.   10” x 7 3/4” Pima Basket (needs cleaning) Face Design

   193.   8 1/2” x 9 1/2” Lidded Eskimo Basket – polychrome, animal design, wear and minor stitch loss to sidewalls      

   194.   7” x 4 1/2” California Basket – minor damage to rim    

   195.   7” x 3 3/4” Lidded Basket – Athabaskan, Yukon River – Nice!

   196.   5 1/2” x 4 1/2” California Basket – 2 tears in sidewall

   197.   6” x 2” Quilled Round Lidded Basket – Bird Design on lid, Chippewa

   198.   The History of Beads, Lois Sherr Pubin, 1995 136 pages, Language of the Robe Robert W. Kapoun 1997, 179 pages, Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery  Rick Dillingham, 1994, 289 pages

   199.   17 – American Indian Art  Magazine 1990’s-2000’s Editions

   200.   10 Books and Pamphlets pertaining to American Indians Art & Culture

            201.     Frederick Remington’s Own West Harold McCracken 1960, 254 pps. Illus. by Remington, Western Art Master Piece  T.H. Watkins and Joan Watkins 1996, 119 ppgs. Frederick Remington 175 Drawings and Illustrations Henry C. Pitz 1972 Third Book