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Timeless Treasures: 19th C. Native, Western Photographs & French Elegance

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Join us Saturday, September 13th at 9am MT in Bozeman, MT for Timeless Treasures: 19th C. Native, Western Photographs & French Elegance. This exceptional auction features a remarkable collection of 19th-century Native American artifacts, rare Western photography by Haynes, Huffman, and other Montana photographers, and an impressive selection of 18th-century French furniture. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to acquire historic and elegant treasures. Browse the full catalog at live.naabid.com North American Auction Company tucker@naabid.com
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1800's Sioux Beaded Quilled Awl Case ex-Christie's
Lot 329

1800's Sioux Beaded Quilled Awl Case ex-Christie's

Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
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The lot features a 19th-century beaded and quilled awl case from the Sioux of the Northern Plains purchased from Christie's Auction in May 1994 and from a private ex-Museum and fine Native American collection from Eastern Montana. The piece exhibits tanned hide with classic 1800's glass trade seed and petit beads with a banded pattern in light blue, greasy yellow, green, semi-transparent green, Cheyenne pink. The awl case has a slide up Indian hide top with Czechoslovakian bugle trade beads on the belt tie fringes as well as double fringes on each corner of the top wrapped in quilled like red wraps with dew claw adornments on the ends. The bottom shows more red quilled like wrappings with more dew claws. Provenance: Purchased from Christie's Auction in May 1994 and from the private ex-Museum and Fine Native American collection in Eastern Montana. Measures overall 20-inches long with belt tie and fringes, the body itself is 8-inches long without ties and fringes by 1.5-inches wide. Soft hides with nearly all the beadwork still present.

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