Sale 1133 | Native American Art

NATIVE AMERICAN ART HIGHLIGHTS

SALE 1133

21 April 2023

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1814 George III Silver Peace Medal

1814

War of 1812 period medal depicting mantled bust on one side; opposite with royal arms; 60.4 mm

Published: Sovereignty Gifts (Hoover and Brasser 2020: pg. 6, 16-17)

Collected from descendants of Chief John Aisance (ca 1790-1847)

$8,000 - 10,000

3

George III Era Sterling Silver Armbands and British Officer’s Gilt Copper Gorget lot of 3, includes:

William Bateman (London, 1774-1850) Sterling Silver Armbands

each hallmarked with the standard mark (sterling), city mark (London), date letter k (1825) and l (1826), duty mark (King George IV), and maker’s mark; delicately engraved with the royal arms, height 2-1/4 inches x diameter 3-1/2 inches regulation British army gorget engraved with royal arms, with motto, length 4-1/2 inches x width 4 inches

Published: Sovereignty Gifts (Hoover and Brasser 2020: pg. 6, 8, 20-23)

$10,000 - 15,000

These silver objects (lots 2 and 3) were commissioned by George III for presentation to Native chiefs in gratitude for the aid given during the War of 1812. Chief Aisance served the Crown during the War of 1812 and again during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. It has been documented that Aisance received a military medal for his service. Collected from descendants of Chief John Aisance (ca 1790-1847)

4 Crispin Fuller (London, act. 1792-)

Rare English Sterling Silver Gorget 1801-1816

hallmarked with the standard mark, city mark, date letter, duty mark, and maker’s mark; delicately engraved with the royal arms, without motto

Published: Sovereignty Gifts (Hoover and Brasser 2020: pg. 6, 10-11)

There are few known existing examples of this style of gorget.  One surviving example is housed within the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum (no. 934.23.4)

$5,000 - 7,000

5

Eastern Sioux Burl Bowl, Bear

third quarter 19th century overall height 5 inches x diameter 13-3/4 inches

Collected in 1969, along with five other examples, now curated within the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

$20,000 - 25,000

7

Northeastern Woodlands Ladle, Bird overall length 9-1/4 inches; width of scoop 6-1/2 inches

$2,000 - 3,000

9

Northeastern Woodlands Maple Ladle, Bird

mid-19th century length 7-3/4 inches x width of scoop 5 inches

$3,000 - 5,000

11

Meskwaki Carved Maple Ladle, Horse

mid-19th century length 5 inches x scoop diameter 3-1/2 inches

Ex Trotta-Bono, New York; Ex Helen Sage, Virginia

$1,000 - 1,500

Haudenosaunee Beaded and Quilled Hide Moccasins

mid-19th century thread-sewn and beaded on cuffs in colors of white, pink, and pony trader blue, with quilled vamps length 8-1/2 inches

$5,000 - 7,000

Great Lakes Maple Ball Club

early 19th century length 25-3/4 inches

Ex Marvin Lince Collection

$4,000 - 6,000

35 Northern Plains Spontoon Pipe Tomahawk, with Beaded Drop mid-19th century overall length 51-1/2 inches; tomahawk length 25 inches; blade length 11 inches x width 2-3/4 inches

Ex Daniel Brown Collection

$20,000 - 25,000

65

Arapaho Drawing from the Edwards Ledger

third quarter 19th century plate #78, a combat scene featuring the exploits of Two Arrows, who is denoted by the double arrow name glyph image depicts a warrior riding a palomino with four stockings and wide blaze, his tail is tied in a knot and he is adorned with a German silver bridle; the warrior is dressed in a capote, trade wool leggings and breechcloth; he holds a shield painted with a blue buffalo head framed with eagle feathers. This shield is also illustrated plate #38 of the same ledger, in the hands of another Arapaho warrior named Sitting Bull (not to be confused with the famed Hunkpapa leader). In this images, Two Arrows is shown with spear in hand, confronting a Pawnee warrior, who has his bow drawn and is dressed only in a breechcloth and black moccasins (further identifying the man as Pawnee).

(page) 12-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches; (frame) 19-5/8 inches x 14-7/8 inches

Published: The Edwards Ledger Drawings: Folk Art by Arapaho Warriors. (Schorsch, 1990: plate 78)

Property of a Private Collector, Chicago, Illinois

Collected by Peter W. Edwards during his exploits during the Colorado gold rush of the 1860s. Descended in the family before being sold during the late 20th century. For more information see p. xi of "The Edwards Ledger Drawings: Folk Art by Arapaho Warriors".

$25,000 - 35,000

56

Rosebud Agency Sketchbook, by “Jack”  1891

9 x 5 1/2 in. sketchbook containing 72 illustrations on unlined paper in colored pencil, ca late 1880s-1890s. Paper cover featuring blue pencil inscription Capt McCauley for Indian Pictures with additional inscriptions on reverse, Jack - Rosebud Agency / South Dakota and Louis Richard. The artist is again identified on the first page which bears the pencil header Draw [sic] by Jack above the illustration.

The sketchbook illustrations are typical of Plains ledger art originating in the last quarter of the nineteenth-century, particularly in subject matter. Stylistically however, the drawings are in a mannerist-romantic style, possessing a three-dimensionality and sense of movement that is somewhat atypical of earlier ledger drawings and is notably striking in appearance. Engaging vignettes depict warriors in graphic battle exploits, horse theft, buffalo hunts, courtship, and, in one instance, an American soldier.

By the 1880s Native American artists across the Great Plains were making ledger art specifically for sale to the European-American middle class. Several pencil notations indicating prices such as $1.25 a piece and $1.00 a.[?] p. seem to indicate that the illustrations in this sketchbook may have been intended for individual sale on behalf of the artist Jack, perhaps by Captain Charles A.H. McCauley, the U.S. Army officer identified on the sketchbook cover. Based on the title inscription Capt. McCauley for Indian Pictures, it seems McCauley may have provided the sketchbook and drawings utensils to Jack (and possibly Louis Richard) for the express purpose of creating these drawings, as was common for military officers, traders, and government agents to do during this period. McCauley’s personal relationship to the artist Jack, and to the Louis Richard likewise indicated on the interior cover inscription, is not definitive, though likely stems from McCauley’s military service in the Wyoming Territory.

Though the exact identities of Jack and Louis Richard cannot be determined with absolute certainty, a search of the U.S. Indian Census Rolls and additional research seem to indicate two Sioux men as potentially having a connection to the ledger offered here. U.S. Indian Census Rolls locate both a Jack (no last name and no “Indian Name” included in the roll just as on the ledger) and a Louis Richard, as residents of the Rosebud Indian Agency in 1891. Jack (ca 1847 - ca 1920) appears on Indian Census rolls at Rosebud Agency well into the 1900s and is identified as “Lower Band of Brule Sioux” as well as “Yankton” and “Rosebud” Sioux. He is identified as husband to White Buffalo Cow. Following the 1890 Census, Louis Richard (ca 1843 - ca 1897) is thereafter located instead at Pine Ridge Agency from 1892 through 1897. He is identified as “Sioux and Cheyenne” and of “Mixed Band of Brule Sioux,” and husband to Jennie Richard While 19th-century ledger art is rare in any form, an intact sketchbook which presumably retains the narrative order of the drawings is exceedingly scarce. By descent through the family of Captain (later Colonel) Charles A.H. McCauley to the present owner, Col. McCauley’s great-grandson.

$50,000 - 75,000

Comanche Buffalo Hide Shield and Cover

mid-19th century

shield created from thick, smoke-tanned buffalo hide that has been painted in yellow ochre and with faint red dots; diameter 15-3/4 inches fitted cover made from softly-tanned elk hide painted in red, green, and black; designed in two halves with zigzagging and circular elements; diameter 16-1/4 inches

Donated by the Davis Family of Alleghany, PA to the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society in 1920. Reported as identified as “Comanche-Southern Plains” by the Historical Society and having been collected in Oklahoma. Ex David Pichelner Collection; Ex Terry Winchell, Fighting Bear

$50,000 - 75,000

Sioux Quilled and Beaded Hide Shirt fourth quarter 19th century thread and sinew-sewn; brightly quilled panels on sleeves, shoulders, and bib; ermine tails wrapped with red wool and brown hair locks; blue and red pigment length 29 inches x chest 40 inches

$25,000 - 35,000

Cheyenne Beaded Hide Possible Bags, Matched Pair

fourth quarter 19th century sinew-sewn and beaded using colors of medium blue, red white-heart, translucent green, deep blue, and greasy yellow; paired tin cones filled with red-dyed horsehair decorate sides and closing flap each, length 12 inches x width 20 inches

$8,000 - 10,000

145

fourth quarter 19th century

heavily stamped and chiseled silver conchas along with accent pieces frame the cheek and browband; a simple sandcast naja in center of browband; Mexican ring bit; braided rawhide roping reins length of headstall 23-1/2inches overall length 74 inches

$5,000 - 7,000

Navajo Silver Bridle

146 Jose Benito Ortega, Attributed (New Mexican, 1858-1941) Cristo Crucificado

48 inches

From a Private Denver Collection

$2,000 - 3,000

158 Navajo Germantown Pictorial Weaving late 19th century 83-1/2 x 61-1/2 inches $10,000 - 15,000

229 Maria and Julian Martinez (San Ildefonso, 1887-1980 / 1885-1943) Painted Redware Pottery Plate diameter 14-1/2 inches Property of a Private Collector, Chicago, Illinois $20,000 - 40,000

152

Navajo Third Phase Blanket

ca 1865

finely woven hand-spun and three-ply Saxony yarns in colors of natural cream, dark brown, indigo, and cochineal 50 x 56 inches

Published: Pleasing the Spirits. A Catalogue of a Collection of American Indian Art (Ewing 1982: fig. 198, pg. 204)

$15,000 - 25,000

223 Martina Vigil and Florentino Montoya, Attributed (San Ildefonso 1856-1916 / 1858-1918)

Polychrome Pottery Olla height 10-1/4 inches x diameter 12-1/4 inches

$8,000 - 10,000

Northwest Coast Carved Speaker Staff second half 19th century possibly Kwakwaka’wakw; carved of spruce and having upper portion depicting a human holding a wolf, followed by a bear, and an ethereal-style figure; iron ferrule  length 76 inches

Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts

$20,000 - 30,000 305

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Upcoming Auction Schedule

SALE 1124

CHINESE & HIMALAYAN WORKS OF ART

MARCH 28 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1160

JAPANESE & KOREAN WORKS OF ART

MARCH 29 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1130

AMERICAN FURNITURE, FOLK & DECORATIVE ARTS

MARCH 30 | CINCINNATI | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1098

WATCHES

APRIL 12 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1147

POST WAR & CONTEMPORARY

APRIL 19 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1174

PRINTS & MULTIPLES

APRIL 20 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1133

NATIVE AMERICAN ART, SESSION I

APRIL 21 | CINCINNATI | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1134

NATIVE AMERICAN ART, SESSION II

APRIL 24 | CINCINNATI | TIMED ONLINE

SALE 1183

PHOTOGRAPHS

MAY 2 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1180

ARMS, ARMOR & MILITARIA

MAY 3 | CINCINNATI | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1137

WESTERN & CONTEMPORARY

NATIVE AMERICAN ART

MAY 4 | DENVER | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1182

WESTERN & CONTEMPORARY

NATIVE AMERICAN ART ONLINE

MAY 5 | DENVER | TIMED ONLINE

SALE 1184

FINE PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS, INCLUDING AMERICANA

MAY 11 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1187

IMPORTANT JEWELRY

MAY 16 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1175

EUROPEAN ART

MAY 18 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1177

AMERICAN ART

MAY 19 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1189

EARLY 20TH CENTURY DESIGN

MAY 23 | CINCINNATI | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1190

MODERN DESIGN

MAY 24 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

SALE 1188

ANTIQUITIES & ANCIENT ART

MAY 25 | CHICAGO | LIVE + ONLINE

Plateau Beaded Hide Gauntlets, with Butterflies second quarter 20th century $400 - 600

To be offered Native American Art Online, April 24, 2023