This is an intriguing buffalo stick. Measuring 17″ long and made of wood, it’s a staff with a buffalo head at the top. The head end, as well as the hump, appear to be a small burl due to how the wood grain is wavy and circular. The head has ears and horns made of […]
This is a wonderful and early buffalo hide, Pueblo belt from the 19th century. There is a tag affixed to one end stating the collection date of 10/13/1932 from the Roy H. Robinson collection. The belt is made of three pieces of hide, all sewn with sinew. One end has a star shaped silver concho […]
This charming, small bolo tie is inlayed with stone and shell – turquoise, jet, spiny oyster shell and mother of peal. The piece comes with the brown, hide tie that ends with silver cones and a bead on each end.
This is a rare and beautiful pair of Zuni (possibly Navajo) earrings. They show carved shell in the shape of a frog set in silver and trimmed on the bottom with 3 pump drilled turquoise beads. These are original and early carved animal forms for which Leekya Deyuse made famous with his more contemporary renditions. […]
These types of layered earrings might have come from the Southern to the Northern Plains and even possibly the NW interior. This is a style used by many tribes. Comanche is a likely possibility since the original collector purchased these sometime in the 1960 – 1970 in Oklahoma with mostly other Comanche material. It’s this […]
This handsome ring is made of inlaid turquoise and spiny oyster shell all over a shell core base. The complementary colors of blue and red make for a pleasing look. The pieces are all inlaid with pinon pitch, making for a striking contrast with its black color. The finish is smooth and shiny with nice […]
This is an early shell, likely a hold over from the Hohokam culture. The Hohokam culture was known to have traveled to the Sea of Cortez in Baja California to find these Spiny Oyster shells, a favorite of the culture. A Pueblo person may have found it well after it had made its way to […]
This is an early and wonderful Native necklace. The attribution is not known, as the original collector found items directly from the Natives in both Oklahoma and the Pueblos in the 1960s through the 1970s. The necklace is a string of mixed, large, glass beads with a spiny oyster shell as the final pendant. The […]
This necklace is published as such: Single strand Cerrillos turquoise necklace, in a style sometimes referred to as “medicine man”, Pueblo make, late nineteenth century. Courtesy of Lynn D. Trusdell, Crown & Eagle Antiques, Inc. What I find so beautiful about this necklace is the quantity of large, green turquoise tabs. The patina shows much […]
