This is a rare and early Pueblo, Santo Domingo, Cradleboard. The small size suggests an earlier date perhaps as early as the mid 1800s, when babies were born small compared to the 20th century. The three hoop sticks are still present, but the neck board across the upper front is missing. These hoops are used […]
This is a rare and early Navajo cradleboard. Two wood boards meet in the center, forming a “V” on the top. Old Navajo weaving photographs often show the mother weaving while the baby, in the cradleboard, rests against the loom structure, with the “V” of the cradleboard snuggled into the vertical loom post. The weavers […]
This is a unique, Navajo weaving comb used to tamp the weft down into place on the loom. I have never seen a heart carved out of the handle. The comb has good use to it, with a smooth, worn, and oily surface; oil coming both from the hands and the lanolin in the wool.
This is a great pairing of an Apache bow case and quiver assembled with a shoulder strap. The bow case is decorated with yellow and green paint and holds a beautiful, sinew backed, recurved, bow. The quiver is decorated with a beaded hide panel also with blue and green beads along with yellow paint. The […]
This is an unusual horn cup with a wood lid that fits tightly into the horn. The wood is likely cottonwood, and is carved out of the center to receive a checkerboard pattern of turquoise and jet. These stones are all hand cut and set into a sandy filler to secure them. This may have […]
This is a beautiful pair of Hopi earrings. They are done in the old (ancient) style of pieces of turquoise attached to a wood backing with pinon pitch as the glue. The early ones were also done as a square or rectangular shape. The center has a square piece of shell for which all the […]
This is a great lance in wonderful condition. The haft is made out of sotol wood. Western Apache and other regional groups used the flowering stalks of the sotol plant (Dasylirion wheeleri)—often colloquially misidentified as a cactus or grouped with yucca-like succulents—to construct lightweight lance shafts. This haft is very smooth, yet bumpy in form […]
This wood Pieta from Northern Spain has amazing wear; the surface glows from decades of touching and holding. It dates to the 15th century if not older. The base is old, but not as old as the statue. Mary holds Jesus’ body on her knees as he descends from the cross, after his crucifixion and […]
This is a very finely carved Christo out of wood, likely boxwood, and set inside a frame. It dates to circa 17th to 18th century and is Flemish. It comes from a private collection in Holland. The Christo is in a custom, very well made, gold gilded box and the Christo is set with nails […]
This is an unusual Mexican tin painting that has been framed in wood. The painting depicts a traditional Mexican retablo on tin depicting the Holy Family during the “Rest on the Flight into Egypt”, likely from the later part of the 19th century. The scene painting is beautiful and tranquil. There is writing at the […]
