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Legacy of Luxury: Native American Beadwork, Navajo Rugs & 18th C. French Artistry Sale

Sat, Mar 29, 2025 11:00AM EDT
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Join us for our Legacy of Luxury Auction on March 29th, which includes nearly 800 lots of high-end antiquities ranging from historic 19th-century Navajo Blankets, a large Beadwork collection, and Western to 18th-century French furniture and artistry.
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Lot 328

19th-Century Oglala Pipe Tomahawk w/ Drop

Estimate: $4,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$2,000

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The lot features a 19th-century pipe tomahawk head with drop from the Oglala Lakota Sioux Indians of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota from the ex-collection of Ted and Lilly Jarvis Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The head exhibits a hand-forged iron head that shows a pipe bowl forged from a rifle barrel, with rifling still visible in the bowl. The head has a small rear facing spur, chevrons on the oval eyelet hole, and the blade has a curved edge withs lightly in-turn inside edge. This is paired with a nice hardwood haft handle adorned with brass tack designs with light faded hot file branding and at the bottom a beaded Indian tanned hide drop attached to a small suspension hole near the bottom smoking end. The drop is comprised of Indian tanned buffalo hide with classic Northern Plains Sioux geometric beadwork with older glass trade seed beads showing colors of light blue, greasy yellow, cobalt, and semi-transparent red with a small blue stroud trade clothe at the bottom with four brass hawk trade bells. The bottom has frill twisted Indian hide fringes. This is a nice, later added example with older age and materials. Provenance: From the collection of Ted and Lilly Jarvis Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This is a nice late-19th-century head with artful haft and drop paired with the piece. Head measures 7.5-inches long by 2.5-inches across the blade, overall length is 19.5-inches long and the drop is 25-inches in length.

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