February Fine Art, Furniture, Decoratives, Jewelery, and Asian Art Auction

A Southwest Native American Indian Havasupai coiled basketry tray, executed in willow and devil's claw on a three-rod foundation, having a five pr...

A Southwest Native American Indian basketry grouping, early 20th Century, consisting of a Papago round bowl with meander pattern, executed in will...

A Southwest Native American Indian Pima or Papago coiled basket on a bundle foundation, Southern Arizona, having a wide rectilinear rim above the ...

Navajo tansitional "eyedazzler" wearing blanket, late 19th Century, in orange, red, brown and white, 7'9'' x 5'

A Southwest American Indian Navajo Ganado textile, circa 1910, with whirling log motifs on brown, white and bright red grounds, 7'9'' x 5' ...[mo...

A Southwest American Indian Navajo textile, mid-20th Century, with dark brown and bright red repeating geometric motifs on a white ground, 4'7'' x...

A Large Native American Indian Cherokee woven storage basket, having a round opening with bulbous body and four pointed base, 12.5"h x 14"dia.

A Fine Eastern Woodlands or Great Plains Catlinite Pipe, Sioux or Crow, circa 1850, the T-form bowl with inlaid metal polka dots and a radial form...

A Great Plains American Indian painted rawhide buffalo shield, circa 1880, possibly Kiowa or Comanche, decorated with red, blue and yellow mineral...

Eastern Plains American Indian Spontoon Ball Head War Club, 1820-1830, the well-balanced club with a tree root burlwood ball head and inset steel ...

An Eastern Plains American Indian Spontoon Ball Head War Club, 1820-1830, with a tree root burlwood ball head, the tapering shank with tack decora...

An American Indian Eastern Woodlands Great Plains gunstock quirt, 19th Century, the well formed handle with brass tack decoration, bells, leather ...

An American Indian Eastern Woodlands Great Plains quirt, 19th Century, the turned wood shank with brass tack decoration and leather strapping, 15....

An American Indian Eastern Woodlands stone head war club, late 19th to early 20th Century, having a well formed granite head, with a fur wrapped s...

An American Eastern Woodlands Indian presentation pipe tomahawk, Ohio Valley or Great Lakes, likely late 18th Century, with a forged English style...

A Eastern Woodlands American Indian mirror board and comb, 1840-1870, formed of carved wood with a dentil crown, the mirror inset into a tapering ...

A Southwest leather belt mounted with (12) 1881 Morgan silver dollars, 36"l

(lot of 4) A Southwest Deco style leather belt lot, each threaded with white metal round button/conchas with acid etched star motif, longest 36"l

(lot of 3) A Southwest turquoise mounted silver belt buckle lot: each with applied leafy ornamentation, including a rectangular buckle by J.W. Toa...

(lot of 2) A Southwest turquoise mounted silver belt buckle lot: the first, oval centering a turquoise specimen, signed "RP" and stamped "sterling...

(lot of 5) A Southwest turquoise mounted silver belt buckle lot: two stamped "sterling", one of oval form stamped "BM", the fourth, marked "TA-175...

(lot of 2) A Southwest Darrin Bill (1965-2003) sterling silver lot: an oval buckle with a Hopi style mask; the second, a cuff bracelet with a cent...

(Lot of 3) A Southwest turquoise mounted buckle lot: the first, an oval "Sterling" buckle with an elaborate inlaid multi-colored stone bird design...

(lot of 3) A Southwest silver belt buckle lot: a Navajo oval sterling buckle with rams by Hyson Craig; the second, a Mexican sterling and mixed me...

(lot of 4) A Mexican silver belt buckle lot: (2) Mexican "Sterling" mixed metal buckles, one centering an Aztec medallion; a third marked "Silver"...

(lot of 16) American silver coin button lot: a 1896 Morgan dollar mounted belt buckle; (6) Mercury dime buttons; (9) half dollar buttons from the ...

(lot of 2) A Southwest silver concha leather belt and a string of turquoise mounted silver/white metal round buttons/concha, some with engraved sa...

A Southwest silver/white metal round buttons/concha lot, some mounted with turquoise, others with sand dollar design.

(lot of 39) Colt Francolin sterling silver tie tacks and button clasps, consisting of (22) button clasps and (17) tie pins, each depicting a onion...

Pre-Columbian Olmec style jade mask, 8.25"h x 7"d

(lot of 2) A Mexican mixed metal silver belt buckle fashioned with a horse saddle, together with a single silver stirrup spur and (2) miniature re...

A decorative Papua New Guinea flat white panel with face, 32"h; Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California ...[more]

A Western Solomon Islands woven fiber wicker shield, 19th or early 20th century, having a long and tapering form with two horizontal bands with ge...

A "Buka" dance paddle, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, late 19th century, with finely carved figure to the handle end, 50"h; Provenance: Ri...

Janus Sculpture depicting two faces and four breasts, possibly a decorative object made for sale to Westerners, 20th Century, probably 1970s, Kera...

Head of an Honored Ancestor, with a skull underneath a pigment-painted paste of earth and clay, Malekula Island, Vanuatu, Early to Mid-20th Centur...

A Fijian leaf form club, mounted vertically, 56"h; Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

A Marquesas Islands elaborately carved bowl, 20th Century, with a crack to the bowl, 11"h; Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del ...

A Papua New Guinea longhouse carved wood panel, having curlicue scroll design around the perimeter and starbursts down the center, with traces of ...

A Solomon Islands canoe prow, of dramatically abstracted and artful bird form, decorated with polychrome pigment, 20.5"h; Provenance: Richard I.M....

Gourd Rattle with fine sennit wrapping, possibly Hawaiian, Early 20th Century, 11"l; Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, C...

A Fijian rootstalk club, Polynesia, with elaborate and extensive woven wrapping, 33"h; Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey,...

A Fine Solomon Islands flat pole war club, Malaita, having thin medial ridges to one end accented with white pigment, 35"h

(lot of 2) A grouping of Papua New Guinea drums, the brown and taller one an especially fine example, both showing handling and use but in good co...

Vanuatu, probably Santo Island, early 20th century, a large ceremonial feasting platter, the oval bowl with four low legs flanked by carrying hand...

An Austral Islands adze, intricately carved wood with a stone blade held in place by elaborate and fine sennit weaving, these classic examples of ...

Papuan Gulf, South Coast Papua New Guinea, shoulder shield to ward off arrows coming from the side, cracked through vertically near center then na...

A Papua New Guinea mysteriously truncated figure, having stylized facial feaures, the abstract form lacking lower legs, 16"h; Provenance: Richard ...

A Micronesian warrior's armor of woven coconut fiber, Gilbert Islands, late 19th century, significantly used, finely executed with woven geometric...

An Oceanic carving adze, superb and long-used, island uncertain, 12"l, Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Marina del Rey, California

A Vanuatu Rambaramp tall and spectacular effigy figure, Malakula Island, probably late 19th or early 20th century, honoring a male ancestor and ha...

A Papua New Guinea bark cloth kavat mask, Central Baining peoples, the well executed example with polychrome pigment, used exclusively in the nigh...

Roof Spire, displayed on the pinnacle of a large, conically shaped chief's house, Kanak People, New Caledonia (part of France territory in the Sou...

(lot of 2) A pair of Vanuatu male and female figures, Melanesia, executed in clay packed on fiber, color and accoutrements, very powerful and haun...

(lot of 2) A pair of Vanuatu male and female figures, Melanesia, executed in clay packed on fiber, color and accoutrements, very powerful and haun...

A South Pacific Island large fish trap, woven like basketry, impressive traditional craftsmanship making quite an object of art, possibly Tahitita...

A model outrigger canoe used for ceremonies, from the Tolai people, probably Duke of York Islands, between New Britain and New Ireland, Papua New ...

A Tokelau "Tuluma," the three Tokelau atolls lying north of Samoa, early to mid-20th century, fishing tackle box having shell inlay, made to float...

A Fine Maori woven flax dance skirt, New Zealand, accented with red and black stiching, 51"h x 34"w Provenance: Richard I.M. Kelton Collection, Ma...

A Tambua whale tooth with necklace of woven fiber, Fiji, probably made of coconut fiber, these were worn often, this example having use and wear, ...