Native American, Ethnographic & Ancient Art
Updated November 3, 2026
| Date | November 9, 2026 at 11:00 AM EST |
| Type | Online only |
| Auction house | Artemis Fine Arts |
| Location | Louisville, Colorado, 80027 · more auctions in Louisville |
| Lots | 194 |
| Estimates | $125 – $27,500 |
What's in this auction
194 lots, mostly pottery, china & glass (19), jewelry & watches (18), fine art & prints (17), antiques & furniture (6). 194 lots have photos and 194 have full descriptions. Pre-sale estimates $125–$27,500 across 194 priced lots. Bidding is online through the auction house's catalog, closing November 9, 2026.
Highest-estimated lots
- Ice Age Woolly Mammoth Fossil Ivory Tusk Schreger Lines | Custom Stand — est. $19,000–$27,500
- Published 19th C. Dogon Togu Na Support Post, Mali (92"H) — est. $12,000–$18,000
- Ancient Fossil Whale Vertebrae Column — Miocene Florida — 58"L — est. $8,000–$12,000
- Large 19th C. Spanish Colonial Wood Saint with Lodged Bullets — est. $7,500–$11,000
- Chinese Mammoth Ivory | Grandfather and Grandson, Gongsun Qing Plaque, Inscribed — est. $4,500–$6,500
From the auction house
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In this auction (194 lots)
Categories: Pottery, China & Glass (19) · Jewelry & Watches (18) · Fine Art & Prints (17) · Antiques & Furniture (6) · Stamps & Philately (4) · Sporting Goods & Outdoors (3)
- Lot 0001 — Haudenosaunee Iroquois Miniature Cradleboard with Carved Doll, Old Museum Tag
- Lot 0002 — Huron Wendat Quilled Hair-On Deerskin Knife Sheath + Green River Knife
- Lot 0002A — Native American Jingle Dress, Orange Cotton with Metal Cones and Sequined Ribbon
- Lot 0003 — Antique Native American Trade Pipe Tomahawk, Square-Tipped Blade, Ringed Bowl
- Lot 0004 — Plains Rawhide Parfleche Case, Painted Diamond Design, Red Trade Cloth Edges
- Lot 0004A — Native American Wood Horn Dance Headdress with Cloth-Wrapped Frame
- Lot 0005 — 19th C. Comanche Painted Rawhide Parfleche | Long Hide Fringe
- Lot 0006 — Early Plains Rawhide-Covered Stone Head War Club, 26.5"L
- Lot 0007 — Northern Plains Floral Beaded Moccasins, Brain-Tanned Hide, ca. 1900–1930
- Lot 0007A — Two Native American Northern Plains Style Carved Catlinite Pipe Bowls, 20th Century
- Lot 0008 — Dakota Sioux Floral Beaded Knife Sheath + Antler-Handled Trade Dagger
- Lot 0009 — Northwest Coast Nootka Grass Lidded Basket, Maroon & Red Ducks
- Lot 0009A — Native American Hopi Koyemsi (Mudhead) Katsina Doll, ca. 1920s–1930s
- Lot 0010 — Pair of Hopi Sikyatki Revival Cylinder Vases, Bird & Feather Designs
- Lot 0010A — Native American Hopi Second Mesa Coiled Rectangular Basket with Katsina Figures, ca. 1940–1970
- Lot 0010B — Two Hopi Wicker Basketry Plaques with Bird and Geometric Designs
- Lot 0011 — San Juan Pueblo Blackware Wedding Vase & Incised Jar, Ohkay Owingeh
- Lot 0011A — San Ildefonso Black-on-Black Wedding Vase by Maria & Julian Martinez
- Lot 0011B — 19th C. Santa Clara Pueblo Polished Blackware Jar with Scalloped Rim
- Lot 0012 — Crow / Assiniboine Beaded Skull Cracker Club, Red Trade Cloth, 31"L
- Lot 0012A — Cherokee Rivercane Storage Basket, Walnut-Dyed Twill Plaiting, 14"
- Lot 0012B — Three Miniature Cherokee Double-Weave Baskets, One Lidded
- Lot 0013 — Southern Plains Peyote Stitch Beaded Feather Fan, Turkey Wing Feathers
- Lot 0014 — Native American Southwest Yucca Hand Broom for Metate
- Lot 0014A — Papago Tohono O’odham Water Canteen, Black on Red, Quartered Circle
- Lot 0014B — Two Maricopa Black-on-Red Bowls, Festoon Arcs & Whirling Logs, ca. 1910–1940
- Lot 0015 — Diné Navajo Ketoh, Silver Plaque, Arrow-Tipped Wire Scrolls, Leather Cuff
- Lot 0016 — Navajo Silver Cross Necklace | Sand-Cast Naja, Fluted Beads, ca. 1930–1950
- Lot 0017 — Navajo Ketoh Plate | Green Turquoise, Rocker-Engraved Sunburst
- Lot 0017A — Navajo Coiled Sumac Water Jar (Tóshjeeh), Pitch-Lined, Herringbone Rim
- Lot 0017B — Navajo Stamped Silver Pill Box | Hinged Lid, Four-Petal Cross Design
- Lot 0017C — Award-Winning Navajo Ts’aa’ Wedding Basket, Silver & Turquoise Center, 1968 Tribal Fair
- Lot 0018 — Navajo Sterling Bolo Tie | Red Coral Branch & Spiderweb Turquoise
- Lot 0019 — 1930s Navajo Pearls Hand-Wrought Silver Bead Necklace, Graduated
- Lot 0020 — Paiute / Shoshone Miniature Beaded Cradleboard, Netted Beadwork Cover
- Lot 0021 — Great Lakes Native American Beaded Victorian Button Boots, Chevron Loomwork
- Lot 0022 — Michael Kanteena Laguna Pottery Hemis Kachin’ Mana Figure, Signed
- Lot 0022A — Pueblo Painted Gourd Canteen with Turtle & Awanyu Serpents
- Lot 0022B — Isleta Pueblo Pottery Basket with Twisted Rope Handle, Polychrome
- Lot 0023 — Marie G. Romero Jemez Pueblo Storyteller with Four Children, Signed
- Lot 0023A — Zuni Pueblo Terraced Prayer Meal Bowl with Frog & Tadpoles
- Lot 0023B — Cochiti Pueblo Pottery Basket with Handle, Black & Red Floral Design
- Lot 0023C — Cochiti Pueblo Painted Log Drum | Bird Design on Drumhead
- Lot 0024 — Santo Domingo Pueblo Pottery Group | Turkey Effigy Bank, Shoe & Pitcher
- Lot 0024A — Santo Domingo Kewa Pueblo Bird Bowl, Black & Red on Cream
- Lot 0024B — Acoma Pueblo Pottery Wedding Vase, Black & Red on Cream
- Lot 0025 — Apache Twined Willow & Sumac Tus Water Jar, Pine Pitch Coated, ca. 1880–1920
- Lot 0025A — Native American Apache Miniature Twined Burden Baskets with Hide Fringe
- Lot 0025B — Apache Twined Basket with Tin Jingle Cones, Two Bands of Leather Danglers
- Lot 0025C — Native American Basketry Seed Beater, Teardrop Form, Leather-Wrapped Handle
- Lot 0025D — Maricopa Pottery Effigy Woman Carrying Water Jar, ca. 1890–1920
- Lot 0026 — Native American Woodland Period 3/4-Groove Stone Axe
- Lot 0027 — Lot of 5 Archaic to Woodland Flint Blades & Awl, Tennessee River Valley
- Lot 0028 — Lot of 4 Prehistoric Stone Celts, Teardrop Axes & Rectangular Adze Blade
- Lot 0029 — Mississippian Shell-Tempered Jar with Crosshatched Incising & Nodes
- Lot 0030 — Anasazi / Hohokam Stone Mano for Trough Metate | 17.3"L
- Lot 0031 — Published Mississippian Hooded Owl Effigy Tripod Bottle, Native American
- Lot 0032 — Published Caddo Hickory Engraved Pottery Bottle - Crenshaw Site, Arkansas
- Lot 0033 — Arkansas Caddo / Mississippian Carinated Pottery Jar on Notched Foot
- Lot 0034 — Large Caddo Engraved Bottle, Sawtooth Neck Rings, 11.3"H
- Lot 0035 — Caddo Hume Engraved Bottle | Serrated Triangle Shoulder & Chevron Panels
- Lot 0036 — Caddo Plainware Bottle, Burnished Gray-Charcoal, Red River
- Lot 0037 — Algonquin Miniature Model Beavertail Snowshoes, Red & Orange Tufts
- Lot 0038 — Inuit or Aleut Carved Wood Fishing Line Winder with Seal Head Barb
- Lot 0038A — Northwest Coast Haida / Tlingit Engraved Silver Cuff, Formline Creature
- Lot 0039 — Leonard Scow Kwakwaka’wakw Carved Mussel Rattle on Bird Stand, Signed
- Lot 0039A — Large Tlingit Spruce Root Oval Basket, False Embroidery & Openwork Bands, 15" L
- Lot 0040 — Large Pre-Columbian Colima Pihuamo Standing Figure, Red on Cream, 20.9"H
- Lot 0041 — Colima Olla with Red-Slipped Neck Band, Burnished Buff Body
- Lot 0042 — Chupícuaro Red-Slipped Tripod Bowl with Rattle Legs, ex-Peter Wray
- Lot 0043 — Nayarit Ixtlán del Río Seated Musician Playing Rasp
- Lot 0044 — Nayarit Red Slip Dish with Cream Painted Crossed Bands
- Lot 0045 — Tlatilco Blackware Pottery Bulbous Bottle
- Lot 0046 — Mexico Preclassic to Classic Pottery Figure Head and Torso Fragments, Group of 16
- Lot 0047 — Ancient Casas Grandes Polychrome Bowl
- Lot 0048 — Maya Face Pendant with Chrysocolla & Chalcedony Beads
- Lot 0049 — Two Veracruz Miniature Ceramic Heads, Skull and Bat with Bitumen Eyes
- Lot 0050 — Seven Manabí Pottery Beads - Five Bird Effigies and Two Spindle Whorls
- Lot 0051 — Two Gran Chiriqui Bichrome Pottery Jars
- Lot 0052 — Two Ancient Costa Rican Terracotta Tripod Rattle Bowls - Zoomorphic Supports
- Lot 0053 — Costa Rica Carved Volcanic Stone Head
- Lot 0054 — Chavin Miniature Anthracite Jaguar Mortar
- Lot 0055 — Two Moche High Quality Gold & Silver Tweezers
- Lot 0056 — Ekonda or Nkundo Iron Prestige Sword, Byongi with Curled Tips, Congo
- Lot 0057 — Congolese Wood Anthropomorphic Slit Drum
- Lot 0058 — Baule Iron Short Sword with Carved Female Hilt & Leather Sheath
- Lot 0058A — 19th C. Nkundu or Konda Currency Sword with Brass-Studded Sheath, Congo
- Lot 0059 — Luba Carved Wood Mboko Bowl with Male and Female Figures
- Lot 0059A — Yoruba Oshe Shango Wood Dance Wand with Trade Beads & Aluminum Band, Mid 20th C.
- Lot 0060 — Two Kuba Carved Wood Cosmetic Boxes, Figural and Hand Lids
- Lot 0061 — Kuba Carved Wood Double-Bladed Sculpture, Ikul Knife Form
- Lot 0062 — Fang Carved Wood Broom or Whisk with Metal Eyes, Cowries, and Cloth
- Lot 0063 — Ugandan Ekyanzi Carved Wood Milk Vessel with Coiled Grass Lid
- Lot 0064 — Published 19th C. Dogon Togu Na Support Post, Mali (92"H)
- Lot 0065 — Turkana Wood Headrest with Plaited Cord, Kenya
- Lot 0066 — Yoruba Wood Ibeji Standing Female Twin Figure
- Lot 0067 — Five Miniature West African Wood Face Masks - Dan Ma Go
- Lot 0068 — West African Granite Bead Necklace - Mottled Hardstone Strand
- Lot 0069 — Igbo Wood Shrine Figure - Cowrie Shell Eyes & Cloth Wrappings
- Lot 0070 — Azande Earthenware Jar with Rouletted Neck
- Lot 0071 — Bozo Polychrome Wood Stool with Antelope Caryatid, Mali
- Lot 0072 — Indonesian New Guinea Wood Ancestral Figure Post, Openwork Arms
- Lot 0073 — Indonesian Kris with Gold and Sapphire Adornments
- Lot 0074 — Papua New Guinea Carved Wood Kundu Drum, Hourglass Form
- Lot 0075 — Papua New Guinea Palmwood Bow & Assorted Arrows
- Lot 0077 — Ropata Davis Carved Maori Kotiate, Manaia Figure
- Lot 0078 — Ice Age Woolly Mammoth Fossil Ivory Tusk Schreger Lines | Custom Stand
- Lot 0079 — Fossilized Megalodon Shark Tooth with Barnacle Colony, 4.8 Inches
- Lot 0080 — Ancient Fossil Whale Vertebrae Column — Miocene Florida — 58"L
- Lot 0081 — Megalodon Fossil Shark Tooth with Polished Enamel on Custom Stand
- Lot 0082 — Otodus Megalodon Fossil Tooth, Serrated Tan Enamel Blade
- Lot 0083 — Egyptian Predynastic Pear-Shaped Stone Mace Head on Custom Stand
- Lot 0083A — Egyptian Copper Atef Crown Element, Osiris, Late Dynastic
- Lot 0084 — Two Predynastic Egyptian Stone Mace Heads on Custom Stands
- Lot 0085 — 8 Predynastic Egypt Chert and Flint Implements, Nile Valley Stone Tools
- Lot 0085A — Egyptian Steatite & Faience Scarab Beads - Group of Three
- Lot 0086 — Six Egyptian Late Dynastic Faience Bead Strands
- Lot 0087 — Six Egyptian Faience Bead Amulets
- Lot 0088 — Romano-Egyptian Bronze Harpocrates-Eros Figure
- Lot 0089 — Roman Glass Bead Earrings, Iridescent Beads on Modern Gold-Tone Mounts
- Lot 0090 — Roman 20K Gold Earrings | Glass Beads, Pierced Rosette Disks (pr)
- Lot 0091 — Roman Banded Glass Intaglio, Two Cupids with Horse
- Lot 0092 — Roman Bead Necklace - Faience, Stone & Glass, Double Strand
- Lot 0093 — Three Miniature Roman Glass Vessels - Two Juglets and a Flask
- Lot 0094 — Roman Copper Key Ring & Leaded Bronze Ring
- Lot 0095 — Roman Glass Unguentarium, Iridescent
- Lot 0096 — 5 Roman & Romano-Egyptian Apotropaic Amulets | Fascina & Evil Eye Talismans
- Lot 0097 — Roman Chalcedony Intaglio - Recumbent Lion & Bird on Pillar
- Lot 0098 — Six Roman Bracelets with Sliding Knot & Twisted Wire Forms
- Lot 0099 — Roman Bronze Priapus Figure + Anglo-Saxon Chatelaine
- Lot 0100 — Roman Miniature Amulets | Glass and Metal Oinochoe
- Lot 0101 — Pair of Byzantine Glass Bracelets w/ Trailing & Stripes
- Lot 0102 — Byzantine to Islamic Leaded-Bronze Scale Measuring Weights
- Lot 0103 — Acheulean Flint Scraper Tool, Paleolithic, Western Europe
- Lot 0104 — Early European Torc with Spiral Loop Terminals and Incised Lines
- Lot 0105 — Three European Carved Bone Sewing Tools
- Lot 0106 — Anatolian Bronze Age Stone Stamp Seal - Antelope
- Lot 0107 — Ten Strands of Ancient Mesopotamian Shell & Stone Beads
- Lot 0107A — Sumerian Faience & Stone Beads - One Pound Lot of Disc & Tube Beads
- Lot 0108 — Miniature Canaanite Bronze Smiting Figure
- Lot 0109 — Two Holy Land Pottery Vessels
- Lot 0110 — Near Eastern Hematite Stone Seals, Abstract Quadruped
- Lot 0111 — Group of 4 Luristan Dress Pins, Varied Finials
- Lot 0112 — Achaemenid Silver Bracelet w/ Incised Banded Terminals
- Lot 0113 — 9th C. Persian Nishapur Pottery Bowl Bird Motif
- Lot 0114 — Persian Seljuk Kashan Pottery Bottle, Black Under Turquoise Glaze
- Lot 0115 — 18th C. Islamic Calligraphic Manuscript Pages (Framed)
- Lot 0116 — 18th C. Indian Bronze - Shiva w/ Parvati Holding Bowl
- Lot 0117 — 19th C. Indian Carved Wood Grain Measure with Carbon Steel Staples
- Lot 0118 — 19th C. Nepalese Wood Devotional Hindu-Buddhist Statue
- … and 44 more lots
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