About TROTTA-BONO LTD
Ted Trotta and Anna Bono have specialized in Antique American Indian Art for nearly forty years. We are founding members of the Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association. Ted was an original member of The New York Leadership Counsel for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian located at the Custom House in Lower Manhattan. Trotta-Bono specializes in collection formation and development. We are privileged to have participated in the largest sales of Antique Native American Art to date. We have appraised, brokered, handled and sold countless individual objec...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Large Rush Mat
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tribe: Woodlands - Western great lakes, attributed to the Mesquakie
Date: 19th century or earlier
Materials: Bulrush, vegetal dyes, indigo cloth-strap tie.
Dimensions: L 86" x 55"
Condition: Excellent, some wear patterns, minor fading. No restoration.
Comments: The intricate interlocking geometric patterns provide innumerable hourglass and diamond motifs which are the central patterns of Western Great Lakes iconography. This artist achieved an extraordinary level of sophistication in overlaying diamond/hourglass design on contrasting background colors resulting in a dynamic interplay of pulsating foreground and background.
"Rush mats...
Category
Antique 19th Century North American Native American Objects
Materials
Wood
Faw Faw Hat
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Region / Tribe: Kansas/ Nebraska border/ Otoe-Missouria
circa 1891-1895
Material: Various cloths, glass beads, cotton thread, shell disk
Dimension: Diameter 10 inches, height 2 3/...
Category
Antique 1890s North American Native American Objects
Materials
Beads
Monumental Northwest Coast Feast Ladle
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tribe: Northwest Coast, Tlingit
Date: Early to Mid 19th Century
Materials: Mountain sheep horn
Dimensions: L. 20 1/2" x W. 6 1/4" x D. 3"
Condit...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century North American Native American Objects
Materials
Wood
Veteran's Quilt
By Cherokee Indian
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Title: Veteran’s Quilt
Region / Tribe: Oklahoma / Cherokee
circa mid-20th century
Material: Cotton cloth, thread
Dimension: L. 96” x W. 67”
Condition: Overall excellen...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Objects
Materials
Cotton
Antique Native American Seneca/Iroquois Cradleboard
By Iroquois
Located in Santa Fe, NM
This is an early Classic form. Full size child's cradleboard with hand sawn pine single plank back, a bentwood hickory or ash head guard and a hand carved footrest. The sides holes a...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Native American Objects
Materials
Wood
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