Recent Native American Art Auctions

A recent auction generated some impressive Native Americana sales.

Skinner, a Boston auction house, dropped the hammer on a Cheyenne cradle board from the quarter of the 19th Century for $88,125. A Southern Plains Cheyenne beaded woman's dress of hide dating to the third quarter of the 19th Century sold for $47,000. A mid-19th Century war axe from the Plains Prairie Missouri people realized $44,650. An Apache basket done in polychrome pictorial techniqque with an estimated age of about 100 years (ca 1900) went for $37,600. A polychrome carved wood mask from the Kwakiutl of the Pacific Northwest received a winning bid of $28,200. The auction was held in May, 2006.

We will try to offer more news about auction results in tribal art in future editions of Tribal Artery. Stay tuned by visiting http://www.tribalartery.blogspot.com regularly.