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    • 19th Century Plains Indian Pipe Bags
    • FIGURES & DOLLS
    • LAKOTA LEDGER DRAWINGS from the Amidon Ledger Book
    • Plains Beauty: ​ 19th Century American Indian ​Garments and Accessories
    • NATIVE AMERICAN DOLLS
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    • Moccasins, Walking in Splendor
    • Vintage Native American Jewelry and Gallery Highlights - Holiday Show 2016
    • Plains Beadwork and Quirts, New Selections, Summer 2016
    • Knifecases and Tomahawks
    • GEOMETRIES: Parfleche
    • Plains Indian Art
    • Plains Indian Art (2)
    • Plains and Plateau Beadwork
    • Beaded Bags from Columbia River Plateau
    • Three Northern Beaded Bags
    • Across the Rockies, Native American Antique Beadwork
    • AMERICAN RENAISSANCE, 19th Century Plains Indian Art
    • The Painted Parfleche
    • Katsinam 2013
  • Past Shows
    • BUBBLE THEORY
    • INTERSECTIONS
    • PARALLEL PLAY
    • AT HOME: Kate Teale and David Henderson
    • James Havard >
      • James Havard, PRIMAL
      • James Havard, Paint People
      • James Havard, TALKING IN COLORS
      • James Havard, Unquenchable Fire
    • Caroline Blum and Melinda Hackett_New Paintings
    • Matt Magee TYPOLOGIES
    • Tom Huakaas STOP D.A.P.L.
    • INTERNAL LANDSCAPES Vito Desalvo and David Reisman
    • Excavations & Certainties
    • SUEJIN JO, MIGRATION_PASSAGES
    • Walter Robinson
    • GEOMETRIES >
      • GEOMETRIES: Parfleche
      • Geometric Abstraction
    • Matt Magee - PAINTINGS and TEXTCAVATIONS
    • INSOMNIA: Larissa Nowicki
    • Melinda Hackett, SEA GARDEN
  • Essays
    • Names and Roles of Two Spirit People: An Historical Perspective
    • TOY CRADLES FROM THE PLAINS & PLATEAU - essay
    • AMERICAN RENAISSANCE, 19th Century Plains Indian Art - essay
    • Larissa Nowicki INSOMNIA
    • "Birds for Crazy Horse" Tony Fitzpatrick
    • Unquenchable Fire: James Havard’s Recent Paintings
    • Plains Art Before 1860
    • Warrior Art and Artifacts
    • SOME THOUGHTS ON COLLECTING INDIGENOUS ART
    • Art on Horseback
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RENEWING THE CIRCLE

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On the left is a Lakota bag brain-tanned hide that started with the rondel form that is prevalent in Lakota blanket strips.  As shown, it is fully beaded on the reverse as well. 4” wide, 5” high  $1150

The Ute example in the middle displays the circle as the central motif of the bag and also shows the Ute use of multiple colors and designs to achieve this objective.  3.5”w x 3.75” h $900

The Apache example on right is beaded in a concentric pattern while the other two are beaded in paha (lane) stitch.  It is festooned with tin cones which add to it’s jingle jangle. Some cone loss on the lower right as visible in photo.  Comes with stand.  4” diameter for bag; 5” including cones $1400


NATIVE AMERICAN ANTIQUES
FEATURED OBJECTS 

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Pueblo dance kilt, early 20th Century, depicting Avanyu, a Tewa deity
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Yupik scraper
Yupik ivory scraper with human form, 19th century
Inuit model of Kashim
Inuit model of a Kashim or men's house, Gold Rush era (1880 - 1920), 5" x 5" wooden box with ivory figurines

PAST SHOWS

TECHNIC/COLOR
Paintings by
Stephen Maine and  Melissa Staiger
   Sculpture by 
Naomi Cohn 

​October 8 - November 12, 2022


TECHNIC/COLOR  Paintings by Stephen Maine and Melissa Staiger Sculpture by Naomi Cohn

​TECHNIC/COLOR press release and images ->


​Beaded Beauty
Early 19th Century
​Haudenosaunee Women's Bags

Online show and essay ->
Haudenosaunee beaded bag
Haudenosaunee beaded bag, first third 19th century; beautiful celestial motifs, 5”x 6.26”
Images and essay->

19th CENTURY PLAINS INDIAN PIPE BAGS 
Images and Essay ->

Plains Indian pipe bags
Plains Indian pipe bags, left to right: Southern Cheyenne, Lakota, and Yankton Lakota

PRESS 


​INTERSECTIONS
Ron Baron and Sarah Walker


Watch the artcritical talk
​17 Years of The Review Panel

Conversations on INTERSECTIONS 
and three other current exhibitions in New York

David Brody, Lilly Wei and Alexi Worth
discuss 
Intersections: Ron Baron and Sarah Walker
Featuring artcritical contributors in conversation
with David Cohen
and an introduction from Phong H. Bui


More Gallery Press and Media ->

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