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Maine Antique Digest, December 2016 7-C
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A Late Classic (1860s-70s)
Navajo wearing blanket made
with indigo-dyed and a raveled
red mix of cochineal and lac-
dyed yarns cost $28,000 at the
booth of Seattle, Washington,
dealer James Flury. “We sold
very well during setup, and sales
were robust at the show,” said
the gallery’s Rob Godwin. What
sold? “Plains beadwork, Navajo
jewelry, Northwest Coast and Eskimo material. We sold a Ute
hide beaded shirt during setup as well as a quilled Northern
Plains shirt, and at the opening we sold a painted and carved
Kwakiutl bentwood box. We will be at this show again next
summer.”
This 58" x 53" Lakota Sioux woman’s painted
buffalo robe, circa 1830, cost $125,000 from Trotta-
Bono Ltd., Shrub Oak, New York.
These three unusual ketohs (wrist guards) were
on offer at Santa Fe, New Mexico, dealer Susan
Swift’s booth. Upper right, an early 20th-century
Pueblo steer or buffalo head inlaid in jet, turquoise,
and coral, $5900; left, Hopi with figural carving
on overlay plaques, $3600; lower right, by Navajo
silversmith Austin Wilson, 1920s-30s, $4500.
Erich Erdoes
of Buffalo
Tracks Gallery,
Santa Fe, New
Mexico, asked
$16,000 for
this circa 1870
Arapahoe
saddle bag.
Dealer Russell Kloer of Clear Sky, Sonoma,
California, asked $1500 for this circa 1940
Navajo squash blossom necklace.
This circa 1880 Nez Perce
rifle scabbard measured
40" long x 6" wide with a
30" fringe and cost $12,000
from AE Tribal Antiques,
Laguna Niguel, California.
Gilbert Hampton of Economos Works of Art/
Hampton Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, asked
$15,000 for this circa 1915 Northwest Coast
“probably Tlingit” beaded shirt.
This circa 1890 San
Juan blackware
jar, 18" x 21", cost
$25,000 at the booth
of Morning Star
Gallery, Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
Jamie Compton of New York
City asked $5200 for this 11½"
x 10" retablo dating from
1800-20. Said Compton, “The
show was successful for me;
I’m paying all my bills and
then some.”At setup, Compton
was busy, “as there is a whole group of people, especially dealers, that come looking to me
for early deals. While it’s fun to visit with them, it does make it a bit hard to find the time to
set up!” Sales of Navajo rugs, books, pottery, and “odds and ends” were mostly in the $500
to $2500 range. Although he is considering exhibiting at Objects of Art in August 2017, “my
plan is to stick only to the Native American Indian art show at El Museo.” Compton found it
interesting to note that he was most active at the very opening of the show, when two-thirds
of his business occurred, and then the last hour of the show, when his last one-third of selling
took place. “I’m glad that the Native American Indian art show went till Friday because that
seemed to pull in a crowd who were in Santa Fe for the Indian Market weekend. If
that had not happened, I suspect that one-third of business would not have taken
place at the end.”
Dan Wasko of
Albuquerque, New
Mexico, priced this
circa 1880 Plains
Indian (“Sioux?”)
hand drum at $650.