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ALASKAN ESKIMO LIDDED BASKETS WITH KNOBS ON TOP,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $330.00
lot of 3, all bundle coiled with distinctive decorations. Includes one with four handles protruding from mid-section of body, height 7.25" x diameter w/o handles 5.5"; PLUS another with four Germantown yarn stylized floral motifs, height 7.75" x diameter 7.5"; AND another with aniline dyed fibers creating four stacked geometric motifs on body, height 8" x diameter 6.25".
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ALASKAN ESKIMO BASKET WITH THREE GUT SKIN POUCHES,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $115.00
lot of 4. Includes a basket coiled with aniline-dyed gut designs around body, height 2.5" x diameter 8"; PLUS a pouch with wool decorations and wool button-hole stitch on scalloped border and with drawstring openings, height 7" x width 5.5"; PLUS another pouch with pleated flap attached to top and with cotton(?)yarn stitching around edges, length 6.25"; AND a round-bottomed, lined pouch with tufts of embroidery floss in seams and openwork eyes along top edge, length 5.5" x width 5".
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ESKIMO FISH SKIN POUCH,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $488.75
delicately made with thread and sinew-sewn panels of red and white fish skin and edged with rabbit fur and red wool, length 8.5" x width 7".
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ESKIMO BASKETRY DOLL WITH WOVEN FEATURES,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,150.00
ca 1930s. She wears a "spotted" parka with matching leggings with design resembling Aleutian Island baskets. Her outfit includes leopard seal skin mukluks and fur mittens attached to yarn string; she carries basket-buckets, 15.25". This basketry technique is complex and could only be accomplished by a skilled artisan.
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ESKIMO DOLL WITH LEATHER FACE AND EMBROIDERED FEATURES,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $402.50
is meticulously crafted. She wears a traditional fur parka with embroidered sealskin border; fur mittens hang from colorful braided yarn strap. Plaid skirt, leggings, and leather soled mukluks complete the outfit, height 16".
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ESKIMO SEAL SKIN GAME BALL,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $230.00
hand-stitched with geometric pattern that alternates between dark and light colored skin, six circular patches of white caribou fur with white leather centers appliquéd to dark areas, ball rattles, diameter 7".
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MODELS OF TRADITIONAL ARCTIC SLEDS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $287.50
lot of 2. Both lovingly handmade of wood. Includes a picturesque bentwood hand sled with copper straps and leather wrappings on handles, length 16.75" x width 4.25" x height 4.5"; AND an equipment tote sled with bentwood runners and string lashings, length 8.5" x width 3.25".
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PACIFIC ESKIMO MODEL KAYAK,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $977.50
with handmade wooden frame covered with hide. Kayaks with an upturned bow and large holes are characteristic of Nunivak Island. This one is complete with Arctic wooden hunting tools with bone points, paddles, and sled, length 26.5"; sled length 9.25".
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ESKIMO MODEL HAND-STITCHED SEALSKIN COVERED KAYAK,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $920.00
with hunter who has a hand-caved wooden face. Kayak is laden with handmade ivory and wood fishing accoutrements: trap, harpoon, oar, and float, length 18.5: x height 3".
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ESKIMO CARVED SOAPSTONE POLAR BEAR AND SEA OTTER,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $287.50
lot of 2. Includes a bear on all fours, sniffing and searching for goodies, by Johnny Opif and signed on bottom "2-57192/ EH," height 4.25" x length 12.5"; AND a well-balanced otter standing with an inquisitive look and holding a rock, signed "Henry Q/ EG/ 44696".
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ARCTIC LIFE,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $258.75
lot of 2 Eskimo soapstone carvings. Includes an intimidating polar bear standing upright and looking to his side for something yummy, height 7.25"; AND another depicting a hunter cutting the back of his newly caught seal, signed "Jimmy Arnamisak" and with "Canada/ Eskimo Art" tag on base, height 2.25" x length 6".
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ESKIMO BALEEN LIDDED BASKET WITH IVORY FIGURE,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $920.00
with fossilized walrus ivory base and domed lid with carved ivory walrus head with baleen eyes. Inside signed "Marilyn Hank Ollon, Pt Hope, AK," and "Authentic Native Handicraft from Alaska" tag on bottom, height 4" x diameter 4"
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BALEEN LIDDED BASKET WITH IVORY POLAR BEAR WITH ITS PAW ON SEAL FINIAL,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $0.00
coiled and with a fossilized ivory base on which is written, "209 Omnick P. T. Hope Alaska," height 2" x diameter 4".
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TUPILAK CARVED WALRUS IVORY TRANSFORMATION FIGURES,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $2,300.00
lot of 2. Includes a man with a sinister toothy grin, flared nostrils, and furrowed brow. A bird emerges from his crown as he holds a mask depicting an almost mirror image of his face, eyes of bird, man, and mask made of baleen, height 5.75"; AND another figure with an attenuated body, extended reptilian hands, and an open mouth dragging along the ground. Another creature emerges from under his tongue (perhaps directed at someone who talks too much...), height 3.75".
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ESKIMO FINGER MASK,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $632.50
ca 1900. Created from thin wooden circles with leather in the center and fine grasses radiating out to form a frame. Each hide side painted with simple flowers and leaves; handle wrapped with strip of calico, diameter with grasses 17".
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CANADIAN MONTAGNAIS-NASKAPI GIRL'S MASK GIVEN TO CARL MOON,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $5,175.00
This by the famous artist Charles M. Russell. The mask is made of caribou skin with painted red lines and leather lacings on eye-holes and around mask, which was worn during a girl’s first menstrual period. This mask is illustrated in Driebe's In Search of the Wild Indian (1997: 350).
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SIBERIAN ESKIMO WOOD PIPES,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $2,300.00
lot of 2. Includes one with pewter inlay mouthpiece and bowl and wooden center section, length 8.5"; AND another with walrus(?) ivory mouthpiece and brass bowl, length 10.25".
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EAST GREENLAND ESKIMO HARPOON AND ATLATL,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $8,050.00
composed of a driftwood shaft with narwhale foreshaft and whale bone socket piece attached using thick hide thongs. Opposite end phallic carved of two-piece narwhale secured with two ivory pegs. Atlatl, with a tapering form and detailed with whale bone, attaches snuggly to harpoon with two bone hooks, length of harpoon 88", length of atlatl 20.25".
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BERING SEA SLATE KNIFE AND WOODEN HANDLE,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $218.50
triangular blade fits into aged wooden handle, length 6.75", blade width 2".
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ESKIMO ENGRAVED BONE BOW GUARD,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,380.00
decorated with a linear geometric pattern and holes on each side for strap, length 4.75" x width 2.75".
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ESKIMO WALRUS IVORY BAG HANDLE,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $2,185.00
with beveled edge, paired holes at ends with incised design of polar bear, seven seal skins incised on inner side, length 13.5" (see BAE 1887-88, pg 190).
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ATHAPASKAN VOLUTE-HANDLED KNIFE,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $2,415.00
with forked top resembling wings, length 10.5". One side of blade with raised central rib and sharpening of blade on that side only.
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ESKIMO SEAL SKIN AND FUR DRAWSTRING PANTS WITH SEAL AND WALRUS MUKLUKS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $402.50
in traditional style. Pants with red felt inserted into seam and with maroon velvet machine-stitched cuffs, length down side 32.5"; AND a pair of finely crafted hand-sewn mukluks detailed with red and black along upper cuff, length 9.75".
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GREENLAND SEALSKIN BOOTS,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $180.00
thread and sinew-sewn with puckered head and toe, black wool drawstring ties, height 15" x length 9".
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CREE/ ATHAPASKAN BEADED HIDE COAT,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,380.00
with beaver fur trimming neck and lower hem. Front openings and cuffs edged with black and red fabric; pink and white beads creating zigzag or diagonal lines decorate fabric. Pink, white, green, yellow, and blue beads are sinew-sewn to create open medallions, chest measurement 42".
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ATHAPASKAN SLED POUCH,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $2,415.00
thread and sinew-sewn on thick, smoke-tanned hide, with closing flap beautifully beaded on red felt and bordered with blue cotton. Trim under the closing flap is beaded with an undulating floral design couched on navy felt, complimenting the work above. Thick fringe hangs at sides and bottom of pouch, length 16" x width 20".
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ATHAPASKAN BEADED PANEL BAG,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,150.00
on red wool felt with appliquéd floral beadwork on both sides using cobalt, corn yellow, translucent green, and black. Geometric loom-beaded panel hangs at bottom with tab tassels terminating with wool yarn knots, red wool handle, length 14.5" x width 7".
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CREE HIDE SHOT POUCH,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $345.00
thread-sewn with silk-embroidered wild flowers on front of pouch and on flap, with snap closure and pinked shoulder strap, length (of pouch) 5" x width 6".
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NORTHERN ATHAPASKAN BEADED HIDE RIFLE SCABBARD,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $2,645.00
thread and sinew-sewn with bands of flowering beadwork on pinked blue and red wool. Beadwork executed in colors of light and dark greens, amber, opalescent, faceted metal, and white, soft fringe along one side of each band. Muzzle end formed with same wool and delicately embroidered with green and pink leaves, hide drops with large red white-hearts, dentalia shells, and wool tassels, length 48.5".
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ATHAPASKAN BEADED HIDE RIFLE SCABBARD,
Sale Price Including Buyer's Premium: $1,020.00
ca 1880, with beadwork in abstract floral motif on red wool trade cloth bound with trade cloth that is then sewn to smoked leather. Additional decorations include fringe and tassels of red and cream trade beads finished with red yarn, length 43.5".
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